Parcels Band Quotes & Sayings

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art. — Franz Kafka

Wit is often its own worst enemy. — Maria Edgeworth

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love. — Jordan Belfort

In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences. — Chris Avellone

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes. — Petter Stordalen

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The day was grey and bitter cold, and the dogs would not take the scent. — George R R Martin

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban. — Ahmed Rashid

It's nice of Mrs. Goe to think that marching against the juvenile juror law is going to keep kids safe. But the fact is, we're NOT safe. Nobody is. That's the whole point. There's no such thing as being safe
here or anywhere. People get hurt every day. Some people get killed by weirdos like Bob White and some people just get teased to death at the lunch table for drinking orange soda or eating a tuna fish sandwich. — Kate Klise

What an unreliable thing is time
when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair ... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly. — Rohinton Mistry

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string. — Chinua Achebe