Psychic Improvisation Quotes & Sayings

Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast. — George Carlin

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything. — Adam McKay

People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court. — Russ Feingold

Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once picked up can never be put dow. — Simon R. Green

If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos. — Rachel Martin

What can I say? I have a thing for women who carry heavy books and know how to use them — Courtney Milan

You can always spot clothes made in a good place. — Lillian Hellman

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. — Swami Sivananda

A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers. — Antoine-Henri Jomini

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true. — Tim O'Brien

Tell me about
your Italian journey
I am not ashamed
I wept in that country
beauty touched me
I was a child once more
in the womb of that country
I wept
I am not ashamed
I have tried to return to paradise — Tadeusz Rozewicz

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet. — John Berryman

Be nice to everyone, always smile, and appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow. — Ed Sheeran

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive. — Avigdor Lieberman