Pennycook Vallejo Quotes & Sayings

I suppose I should have laughed even more uproariously at what happened next; as a newly anointed convert to the Old Comedy, I should have bounded to my feet, cried aloud, "Hallelujah!" and sung the praises of He Who Created Us, He Who Formed Us from the Mud, the One and Only Comic Almighty, OUR SOVEREIGN REDEEMER ARISTOPHANES, but for reasons all too profane (total mental paralysis) I could only gape at the sight of nothing less than the highly entertaining Aristophanic erection that Pipik had produced ... — Philip Roth

Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner. — Agatha Christie

I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness. — Saoirse Ronan

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long. — Zoroaster

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. — Ulysses S. Grant

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power — Terry Tempest Williams

children tend to hold a concept of God even if their parents are atheists. — Nancy Pearcey

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring. — Louis Leterrier

We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic. We're in denial that each and every one of us is the problem. And until we face up to that, nothing's going to happen. — Yvon Chouinard

It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect. — William S. Burroughs

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed. — Mark Wahlberg