Pichler Fairings Quotes & Sayings

Only a few hardy Westerners learn to speak Thai and even fewer learn to read it. At first glance it seems impossible and on second glance one would much rather not. The alphabet has forty-six wiggly consonants and thirty-one vowels, some of which are not visible to Western eyes. The language is a mixture of Pali, Sanskrit, Cambodian, and is of the Sino-Tibetan family and it seems to embrace the rules of all even when they conflict. King Rama Khamheng devised the alphabet in the thirteenth century and the writing shows the effect of having been born full-blown of kingly whim. — Carol Hollinger

The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life - another hunter, an angel or a demon, a delicate infant or a tottering old man, a fairy or a demigod - there's only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization. It's the explanation for the Fermi Paradox. — Liu Cixin

Appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour — John Wyndham

I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games. — Taraji P. Henson

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life. — Jack Nicholson

There are no compasses for journeying in time. — Graham Swift

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen. — Samantha Power

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable. — Jon Stewart

With that kind of shooting, I don't believe you'll be a slave to anyone ever again. -Jesse to Cyrus. — M.A. Bookout

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. — Susan Sontag

L.A.'s always been good to me. — Raekwon

I do believe in God. That's why I'm alive. — Eric Massa

We use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness. — Bill McKibben