Performas Quotes & Sayings

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. — Mason Cooley

Viewed in abstractions, love is the same thing for everybody. It thrills the same way, and devastates with bloodless efficiency. — Craig Lancaster

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. — Wernher Von Braun

You can leave a door open for your 'friends,' but the truth is anybody can come in through that open door. And how do you know these friends are who they say they are, anyway? — Katie Alender

How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live? — Anthony Douglas Williams

How can anybody in his right mind be against science? — Kurt Vonnegut

Where did you get the meat from? Mo Erwa answered calmly: We just boiled our three-year-old daughter. — Liao Yiwu

I struck down his evil no matter what name it took for itself, no matter that it called itself history or revolution, America or the son of God, no matter that it called itself righteous, a righteousness that presumed the license to bind the free word and thought, that presumed the wisdom to timetable the birth of a soul, that presumed the morality that offers its children up to the plague rather than teach them the language of love. A thousand righteous champions calcified into something venal and mean by their presumptions of something sacred and pure and undirtied by the blood and spit and semen of being human: I recognized all of them by the bit of him they carried, sometimes in one eye, sometimes under their nails. — Steve Erickson

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said. — Dorothy L. Sayers

If in doubt, keep quiet. Play safe, talk less, and observe. — Alison Golden

Dogbert to Dilbert
"My invention can detect human stupidity. It has a very simple interface. All I do is point it at people."
"Then what does it do?"
"Why would it need to do anything else? — Scott Adams

My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, doesn't like to talk to reporters ... — Thomas Pynchon

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. — Ben Nicholson