Pefer Quotes & Sayings

The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage. — David Brin

Miles is ... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Like seeing roasted meat and other dishes in front of you and suddenly realizing: This is a dead fish. A dead bird. A dead pig. Or that this noble vintage is grape juice, and the purple robes are sheep wool dyed with shellfish blood. Or making love - something rubbing against your penis, a brief seizure and a little cloudy liquid. Perceptions like that - latching onto things and piercing through them, so we see what they really are. That's what we need to do all the time - all through our lives when things lay claim to our trust - to lay them bare and see how pointless they are, to strip away the legend that encrusts them. Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell. — Marcus Aurelius

The standards for defining the existence of emotions in animals begin with those in common use for humans. One should demand no more proof that an animal feels an emotion than would be demanded of a human - and, like humans, the animal should be permitted to speak its own emotional language, which it is up to the beholder to understand. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it. — Eli Roth

For I was, as you have already guessed, a collaborator with Destiny, not one who put a pistol to its head and demanded particular treasures. The only thing for me to do was to keep on keeping on, to have faith in my whim, and remember that for me, as for the saints, illumination when it came would probably come from some unexpected source. — Robertson Davies

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with. — Jimmy Rushing

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart. — Shakira

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful. — Martin Parr