Overextended Price Quotes & Sayings

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things. — Colin Quinn

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true. — Ai Weiwei

If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion. — Pope Pius X

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him. — Ernest Renan

In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the individual who is symbiotically dependent there will develop hostility toward those whom he regards as instrumental in the suppression of his capacities and freedom. — Rollo May

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries. — Bette Davis

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me ... and also the downfall of me. — Roy Harper

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini. — Aldous Huxley