Natural State Podcast Quotes & Sayings

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. — Ernest Mandel

O great Ariadne who pour out your tears
On the shore, as you see, out there on the waves,
The sail of Theseus flying white under the sun,
O sweet virgin child whom a night has broken,
Be silent!
-Sun and Flesh (Credo in Unam) — Arthur Rimbaud

He was an atheist and it had been years since he read a book, despite the fact that he had amassed a more than decent library of works in his specialty, as well as volumes of philosophy and Mexican history and a novel or two. Sometimes he thought it was precisely because he was an atheist that he didn't read anymore. Not reading, it might be said, was the highest expression of atheism or at least of atheism as he conceived of it. If you don't believe in God, how do you believe in a fucking book? he asked himself. — Roberto Bolano

One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean. — Roger Ebert

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay. — Dan Savage

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy. — Manuel Puig

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself. — Stephen Frears

Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl ... I have ever met since ... I met you. — Oscar Wilde

He sees me staring and raises his hands in the air like what the shit, dude? "I will use a wheelchair if and when the following conditions are met. One, I ain't got no fucking legs. Two, I'm paralyzed from the waist down. Three, I'm ninety-six years old. None of those apply to the current situation. You try to put me in that thing, and I will put you down. — C.M. Stunich

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges. — Peter Benchley