Prevailin Quotes & Sayings

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it. — Terry Jones

I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste. — Graham Norton

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean. — Terry Pratchett

In the bottoms, reeds grew thick and green in rain-swollen waterways; low, shrubby willows populated a patchwork of sandy islands; and other water-hardy stuff grew in such profusion that only the most wretched fugitives were to be found there. Merely to dwell in such a place was to confess oneself an outlaw or a witch. The valleys and ravines that drained into it were choked with trees, generally too small and mean to be of interest to any, save charcoal burners. The — Neal Stephenson

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over! ... G. Washington never slopt over. — Artemas Ward

I'm not a fucking dog, so don't 'good girl' me. — Jasinda Wilder

For years I'd been trying to forget ... , locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey ... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality. — Benedict Jacka

You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for yourself; you decide what the meaning of your life is to be. People talk about the meaning of life; there is no meaning of life
there are lots of meanings of different lives, and you must decide what you want your own to be. — Joseph Campbell

Everyone is the same under the skin. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life. — Swami Vivekananda

Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there? — Jonny Greenwood