Pulverizes 7 Quotes & Sayings

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. — Walter Savage Landor

When she saw how they worked, not on their own but two by two, working their trunks together to tie a knot, she realized why they'd been so astonished by her hands, because of course she could tie knots on her own. At first she felt that this gave an advantage
she needed no one else
and then she realized how it cut her off from others. Perhaps all human beings were like that. — Philip Pullman

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens. — Azar Nafisi

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic. — Ludwig Von Mises

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus

To try to distill the Bible, which is bursting with life, drama, and tension, to a series of principles would be like trying to reduce a living person to a diagram. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics. — C.V. Wedgwood

It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.' — Paul Weller

Jesus did not call upon people to repent, or fast, or observe the sabbath. He did not threaten with hell or promise heaven. — Robert W. Funk

I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes that happens in certain types of horror movies. I was never a fan of that, I wasn't looking for 'inventive' kills and I even hate that word because it's like, if you have these characters screaming or crying in pain I don't think anyone should be jumping out of their seat cheering. It should be horrible and you should feel sick watching it because that's what it is, sick. — Rob Zombie

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better. — Noel Gallagher

The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust by my uncle and my own father and courtier after courtier, I assure you I am unrivaled at pretending not to notice other people's glances. — Megan Whalen Turner

Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works. — Lea DeLaria

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues. — Dee Dee Myers

Writing is a conviction before it is a craft. — Joshua Cohen

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway ... Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing. — Natalie Goldberg