Politicum Quotes & Sayings

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland. — Dan Auerbach

[M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum, supporting a mixed polity partaking of elements both royal and political, which is to say, popular and representative. — Patrick Collinson

God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I never knew kissing could be this good — Jenny Han

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done. — John Perkins

I wrote every day throughout my twenties. For a while, I had a boyfriend who was a musician, and he practiced every day. He played scales; I wrote small fictional scenes. It was the same idea - to keep your hand in your craft, to stay close to it. On bad days, when I felt no inspiration at all, I would set the kitchen timer for thirty minutes and make myself sit there and scribble something, anything. I had read an interview with John Updike where he said that some of the best novels you've ever read were written in an hour a day; I figured I could always carve out at least thirty minutes somewhere to dedicate myself to my work, no matter what else was going on or how badly I believed the work was going. — Elizabeth Gilbert

For me, my thoughts are my prostitutes. — Denis Diderot

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent. — Mason Cooley

This guy had taken great care to not allow even a piece of his skin to be observed. They didn't even know if he was black or white. Although most mass murderers were white. And male. — David Baldacci

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen. — Daniel J. King

Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time. — Villiers De L'Isle-Adam

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love. — Victoria Azarenka