Rapolas Ivanauskas Quotes & Sayings

Did I really want predictability? Did I want a never-ending routine that, while always resulting in pleasure, never altered, never faltered? Was he even capable of failing? And with that question, had I truly believed that the possibility of failure was a bad thing? Wasn't risk the very marrow of life? Never knowing what you were going to get ... or how? Never knowing whether it was going to change your entire existence or leave you dejected? — Jennifer DeLucy

Obviously the name of the show is a joke, a friend of mine gave it to me. But some people are very literal. Sometimes you see things like "He's not the smartest man in the world! All he does is drink." Well, they're not listening very closely. — Greg Proops

Henry says. He mimes a javelin throw: though in the restrained way — Hilary Mantel

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way. — Lars Von Trier

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old. — Ignazio Silone

Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others. — Vironika Tugaleva

In the American way of life pleasure involves comfort, convenience, and sexual stimulation. Pleasure, so defined, has little to do with the past and views the future as no more than a repetition of a hedonistically driven present. This market morality stigmatizes others as objects for personal pleasure or bodily stimulation. The reduction of individuals to objects of pleasure is especially evident in the culture industries
television, radio, video, music. Like all Americans, African Americans are influenced greatly by the images of comfort. These images contribute to the predominance of the market-inspired way of life over all others and thereby edge out nonmarket values
love, care, service to others
handed down by preceding generations. The predominance of this way of life among those living in poverty-ridden conditions, with a limited capacity to ward of self-contempt and self-hatred, results in the possible triumph of the nihilistic threat in black America. — Cornel West

I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps. — Jorge Luis Borges

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres. — Debra Messing

Friendships don't last forever, but make sure you make the most of them before it's gone. — Crystal