Nothingman Studio Quotes & Sayings

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame. True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge. — H.L. Mencken

As we become familiar with something, we think about it more in terms of the use we put it to and less in terms of what it looks like and what it is made of. — Steven Pinker

Edge of town
all graveyard
and the sound of waves — Santoka Taneda

Craig." I tried to plead as lust and desire fogged my brain. "Please, just leave me alone."
"But I can't seem to help myself," he murmured seconds before his lips brushed gently over mine. — Samantha Young

I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice — Nicholas Sparks

Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III. — Kate Williams

I'm Hana," Hana says. "And this is Lena." She jabs me with an elbow. I
know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I'm
too outraged to speak. He's lying. I know he's the one I saw yesterday, would bet
my life on it.
"Alex. Nice to meet you." Alex keeps his eyes on me as he and Hana shake
hands. Then he extends a hand to me. "Lena," he says thoughtfully. "I've never
heard that name before. — Lauren Oliver

What is
there in being able
to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of
self-defense;
in proving that one has had the experience
of carrying a stick? — Marianne Moore

One of the axioms that most religions, Judaism included, accept about God is that God is good. But those are just words. What does it actually mean to be good? One of the things it means, Luzzatto says, is that one acts to benefit others. If there is no world, though, then there are no others that God can benefit; He exists alone in numinous solitude. God acted to create a world so that there would be other beings existing besides Himself, beings upon whom He could bestow goodness. In short, God created the world because goodness demanded it. — David Fohrman

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? — Juana Ines De La Cruz

Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two. — Sara Craven

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us. — Robert Bly