Paskevicius Ten Quotes & Sayings

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. — Emil Cioran

Speak softly and carry a big stick. — Teddy Roosevelt

If I were a dad, I'd have my kids watch 'I Love Lucy' and 'The Honeymooners.' — Horatio Sanz

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. — Plautus

The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one, certainly, but also that of the wider poetry world itself. It changed poetry for ever in the UK, ... It led to readings all over the country. You suddenly got more women reading and publishing poems, as well as gay guys and poets from all over the world. Until that time, published poetry had been very university-based white, male, middle-class. We were trying to break poetry out of its academic confines. — Adrian Mitchell

They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read. — Sherman Alexie

When life throws a wrench in your plans, catch it and build an IKEA bookshelf. — Tyler Oakley

Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M.
Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. "So where's the message?"
"Right there." I pointed from picture to picture. "It says: Chloe, I'll be back, Simon. — Kelley Armstrong

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet. — Frederick Douglass

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. — George W. Bush