Qumicast Quotes & Sayings

Any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their authority and impair the intellectual vigor of the young. ("Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?" [1954], Y 196) — S.T. Joshi

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music. — Paul Weller

What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder. — Richard E. Nisbett

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends? — James Joyce

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. — Nelson Mandela

And so when you have lost everything, no more roads, no direction, no fixed signs, no ground, no thoughts able to resist other thoughts, when you are lost, beside yourself, and you continue getting lost, when you become the panicky movement of getting lost, then, that's when, where you are unwoven weft, flesh that lets strangeness come through, defenseless being, without resistance, without batten, without skin, inundated with otherness, it's in these breathless times that writings traverse you, songs of an unheard-of purity flow through you, addressed to no one, they well up, surge forth, from the throats of your unknown inhabitants, these are the cries that death and life hurl in their combat. — Helene Cixous

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. — Billy Graham

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman