Panos Vlahos Quotes & Sayings

After two thousand years we've established a state so as to have someone to steal from. — Amos Oz

For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new. — Nick Kroll

Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears. — Francis Of Assisi

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. — Oliver Goldsmith

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in my head. It takes a lot of work, writing, writing, and rewriting to get the music exactly the way you want it to be. — Jonathan Lethem

When the flames came up her eyes burned out there like gatelamps to another world. A world burning on the shore of an unknowable void. A world construed out of blood and blood's alcahest and blood in its core and in its integument because it was nothing save blood had power to resonate against that void which threatened hourly to devour it. He wrapped himself in the blanket and watched her. When those eyes and the nation to which they stood witness were gone at last with their dignity back into their origins there would perhaps be other fires and other witnesses and other worlds otherwise beheld. But they would not be this one. — Cormac McCarthy

I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people. — Rudy Giuliani

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff

A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy. — Gabrielle Zevin

Somehow, somewhere, I know that God loves me, even though I do not feel that love as I can feel a human embrace, even though I do not hear a voice as I hear human words ... God is greater than my senses, greater than my thoughts, greater than my heart. I do believe that He touches me in places that are unknown even to myself. — Henri Nouwen

Ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling. — Bram Stoker

I miss you like the mismatching sock I can't find. You're out there somewhere. — Karen Quan