Niosa 2021 Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to wrap her in my arms and brush my eyelashes against hers in butterfly kisses. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

I love Chicago. I got on a bus and asked the driver, Do you go to the Loop? He said, No, I go beep-beep! — Joey Bishop

I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you — Veronica Roth

The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses. — Wilhelm Reich

And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history ... — James Joyce

An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune. — Naguib Mahfouz

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really. — James Denton

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated. — Larry McMurtry

It's simple: To say anything about the nature of things, you must attend to the facts, facts in their original form. The trouble with knowledge is that it keeps chiseling things away. — Mencius

If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subservient to one-third, for which admittedly he has no absolutely feverish zest, how can he hope to live fully and completely? He cannot. — Arnold Bennett

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader. — Josh Radnor

When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong. — Diane Ravitch

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many. — Mark Twain

Around 1977 I became very ... negative, I began to do things unconsciously that I didn't understand, and they were very sabotagistic and I didn't know what I was doing. I was pissing everybody off, I was breaking my bridges. I was hostile to people, I was doing performances and insulting people there - I was doing whatever I could to destroy whatever world I had created ten years before, without knowing, really, why — Charlemagne Palestine

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace. — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta