Pitje Chambers Quotes & Sayings

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. — William James

She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her. — Denis Johnson

If this is true - if solitude is an important key to creativity - then we might all want to develop a taste for it. We'd want to teach our kids to work independently. — Susan Cain

But that's the modus operandi of fashion, isn't it - to move antithetically, almost Hegelian in its constant vacillation between seemingly opposing extremes? — G. Bruce Boyer

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. — David Lloyd

In what you have called your nonbarbarian societies, children (and wives, and husbands, for that matter) are thought of as property, as personal possessions, and child-bearers must therefore become child-raisers, because they must take care of what they "own. — Neale Donald Walsch

I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them. — Max Irons

Jesus gave me this book when he was done with it, saying, "You have got to read this shit, Kevin. It's fucking fantastic." Jesus is terrible with names. - ERNEST HEMINGWAY — Jenny Lawson

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin. — Emile Zola

The only marketers who know what the hell they're doing are those who have worked in sales — David Ogilvy