Parlotones Quotes & Sayings

The war machine is a concept that Deleuze and Guattari pulled from Pierre Clastres who said that indigenous and nomadic peoples live in such a way that war isn't a thing that sometimes interrupts peace, but war is actually a common condition that peace sometimes interrupts. And war isn't just lethal violence at all times, there's also a playful element to it. — Anonymous

Every masterpiece comes at the end of a long line of failures. — James Patterson

Basically what you want in any profession - I would say the same thing if I were a lawyer or a doctor - is you want bright undergraduates to look at your profession as something they would be interested in getting into. — Louis Menand

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system. — David R. Brower

The Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new Internet service providers or new forms of expanding access. — Jonathan Zittrain

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good. — John C. Maxwell

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things. — Wilbert Rideau

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. — Brandon Sanderson