Nostalgia Pics Quotes & Sayings

Ambiguity begets participation. — Daniel J. Levitin

The great writers can take us anywhere; but half the time they're taking us where we don't want to go. — Martin Amis

How desperate is it possible to be
That's something that's never been researched.
There are no statistics.
There are no graphs to compare oneself with.
No diagrams with uplifting figures.
I could still change my mind.
Go back to bed.
It'll sort itself out all this I thought.
No it won't I thought. It really won't. — Johan Harstad

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet. — Caitlin Flanagan

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person. — Mark Twain

Patience will be on our side."
"I once heard that patience is a vulture in wait to take out its prey when all seems safe. — Cyndi Goodgame

At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it. — Vladimir Nabokov

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it. — Margaret Cho

The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land. — Erich Fromm

I'd learned something ... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ... and others. This was valuable information. — Anthony Bourdain

Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form. — S.I. Hayakawa