Piscis Quotes & Sayings

[Nietzsche thinks artists undersexed]:
"Their vampire, their talent, grudges them as a rule that squandering of force which one calls passion. If one has a talent, one is also its victim; one lives under the vampirism of one's talent."
Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in Camille Paglia's "Sexual Personae — Camille Paglia

Can the fish love the fisherman?
[Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?] — Martial

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. — Janet Reno

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever. — Rod Stewart

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. — Andy Grove

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem. — Mark Roberts

Multilate. Ha Ha Ha,' said Nusswan, avuncular and willing to pretend it was a clever joke. 'Its all relative. At the best of times, democracy is a see saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to break a few democratic eggs. To fight fascism and other evil forces threatening our country, there is nothing wrong in taking strong measures. Especially when the foreign hand is always interfering to destabilize us. Did you know the CIA is trying to sabotage the Family Planning Programme? — Rohinton Mistry

Mere anxiety is the source of everything — Martin Heidegger

Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does? — Jesse Ventura

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

The measuring and mixing always smoothed out her thinking processes - nothing was as calming as creaming butter - and when the kitchen was warm from the oven overheating and the smell of baking chocolate, she took final stock of where she'd been and where she was going. Everything was fine. — Jennifer Crusie

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well. — Antony Sher

Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out. — Lydia Sigourney

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency. — Adam Smith

Everything's mobile these days. Let's go mo-bile! But really, that's just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don't get it, and you move on. — Michael Arrington

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens. — Satyajit Ray