Philias Martinek Quotes & Sayings

And you turn over
to your left side
to get the sun
on your back
and out
of your eyes — Charles Bukowski

The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him. — Brandon Sanderson

The mistake of all the religions is to look outside the world for explanations of the world, rather than rethinking the world itself, so that it offers up its own explanations for itself. The world itself must be self-explanatory. — Rebecca Goldstein

I prefer to see with closed eyes. — Josef Albers

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever. — Peter Doig

No liquid investment alternatives with stable guaranteed principal values exist that can provide real returns by consistently beating the combined impact of inflation and income taxes. — Roger C. Gibson

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sometimes you may have nothing yet without hope you've got less — Benny Bellamacina

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. — Ruth Benedict

Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex. — Penn Jillette

Valkyrie made a face. "Bloody vampires."
Ryan sat forward. "That was a vampire? That guy who looked like an accountant?"
"We don't talk about vampires," Skulduggery warned.
"But it was daytime. How could he have been out during the-"
"We don't talk about vampires!" Valkyrie said sharply.
Ryan shrunk back. "Sorry," he said.
"Don't worry about it," Skulduggery told him. "Valkyrie used to date a vampire that's all."
"We didn't date ," Valkyrie said immediately.
Skulduggery held a hand up. "I'm not judging."
Valkyrie scowled. — Derek Landy

If we start to look into the nature of the relationship between time and the dynamics of social exchange, we quickly discover that temporal considerations are equally important as spatial ones when examining the causes of disjunction that can separate familiarization and alienation. Synchronization, it seems, is often in thrall to serendipity - temporal disjunction, like entropy, is one of the irresistible forces of nature. — Izima Kaoru

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert. — Alicia Vikander

The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax privileges, and appropriate labour legislation and market support to attract a commitment and investment. — Eric Kierans