Pancultural Quotes & Sayings

The winter drove them mad. It drove every man mad who had ever lived through it; there was only ever the question of degree. The sun disappeared, and you could not leave the tunnels, and everything and everyone you loved was ten thousand miles away. At best, a man suffered from strange lapses in judgment and perception, finding himself at the mirror about to comb his hair with a mechanical pencil, stepping into his undershirt, boiling up a pot of concentrated orange juice for tea. Most men felt a sudden blaze of recovery in their hearts at the first glimpse of a pale hem of sunlight on the horizon in mid-September. But there were stories, apocryphal, perhaps, but far from dubious, of men in past expeditions who sank so deeply into the drift of their own melancholy that they were lost forever. And few among the wives and families of the men who returned from a winter on the Ice would have said what they got back was identical to what they had sent down there. — Michael Chabon

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me. — Aretha Franklin

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal. — John Ortberg

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much
all of it wrong. — Tamora Pierce

And after he drives away your
buddy says, "A fucking
Jaguar? Seriously?"

"Honestly," you say,
"he deserved to have his
fence smashed up
just for that. — Hosho McCreesh

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places. — Samuel Beckett

The law doesn't create a right. — Jack Kevorkian

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors. — Bernie Siegel

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie - someone really scary. — Jessica Brown Findlay

People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things. — Paul A.M. Dirac

I was going to stay overnight at my friend's house - he said, "you'll have to sleep on the floor." Damn gravity! You don't know how bad I wanted to sleep on the wall. — Mitch Hedberg

If you could do with being in the clouds, be up in the clouds. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Assign a deadline to your biggest objectives and stick to it so they don't become just another litany of "what ifs" and sad regrets. — Carlos Wallace

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place. — Lauren DeStefano