Npiers Quotes & Sayings

Russell T. Goode was so dominant in the Olympic Power Wrestling tournament that he fought himself in the final. — Michael S. Hunter

Selfishness, self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without provocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt. So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. — Alcoholics Anonymous

the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death. — Harper Lee

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, "To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls." Another one said, "To describe blow-jobs artistically. — Kurt Vonnegut

There's a ghost of a dream that you don't even try to shake free off because you're too in love with the way she haunts you. — Kamila Shamsie

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals. — Tom Stoppard

One did not need to penetrate David's secret counsels or insinuate a man in his bodyguard. All one needed was a pair of years and access to the royal precincts. Just to eavesdrop upon his singing was to develop an accurate idea of his state of mind. — Geraldine Brooks

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen. — Patti Smith

Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions. — Quentin Tarantino