Passent Quotes & Sayings

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world. — Hal Holbrook

The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are - their work should speak for itself. — Tsugumi Ohba

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always. — Tom Jones

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day. — Rahul Dravid

When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent. — Malcolm X

You have to forget about people when you can't have them anymore. That's the only way to be okay. — John Corey Whaley

Flowers preach to us if we will hear. — Christina Rossetti

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel. — David Macaulay

All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want to do this, but we're doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other. — Tariq Ali

i find what comes out of my own mouth to be the most interesting — Ellery

If you force extroverts to pause, says Newman, they'll do just as well as introverts at the numbers game. — Susan Cain

Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren't spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking. — David Powning

What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already? — Herbert Jay Stern

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary. — Daniel Johns

(...) a course laid between the seed and the snare
marks of venerable syringes ordered
to excite the awareness of Transcendence
first and last harbour the disinfecting of exile
on the bridge no one, only me,
searching for approaches and testing traitor neurons
grading thoughts repenting in an incomprehensible tongue
and again attempting to show the splash-down of a world
which moves up and down within the walls of experience
a tragedy which travels unruffled
hell without sinners without return (...) — Dimitris Lyacos