Pestiferous Person Quotes & Sayings

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always. — David Hockney

Praise should be honest, but it should never be withheld. — Brandon Sanderson

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish. — Jennifer Weiner

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained. — Stefan Zweig

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent. — Hilary Duff

Yet this distance, all those abysses unbridged and then unbridgeable by radio, television, cheap travel and the rest, was not wholly bad. People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more. But I am a heretic, I think our ancestors' isolation was like the greater space they enjoyed: it can only be envied. The world is only too literally too much with us now. — John Fowles

We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God. — Clement Of Alexandria

When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off. — Michael Shermer

A happy heart comes first, then the happy face. — Shania Twain

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science. — Karl Barth

Laugh, laugh mother fucker now it's your turn because your black then it's my turn I'm white and I will starttt with your finggerss... I like them nice... so I will start with the winky finga. — Deyth Banger

One of the best parts of working at 'O' is that people just love to send us stuff. — Gayle King