Remembering Babylon Quotes & Sayings

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul? — Craig Thompson

They sell pot named after me in the dispensaries. And I'm not even a pot guy. I was so honored. — Charlie Sheen

Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction - and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday. — Arthur C. Clarke

So you're thinking about babysitting. You love kids, you need the cash, and you've got a little free time. — Halley Bondy

Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers — Juan Somavia

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. — Kevin Costner

It is not important what is said, what is important is what is heard. — Jeffrey Fry

Herein lies the attractiveness of ethnic agitation: its ease and accessibility. The Other is visible, everyone can recognize and remember his image. One doesn't have to read books, think, discuss: it is enough just to look. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

steel wedge between the — Blake Crouch

Not all great writers may seem great to us, regardless of how often and how hard we try to see their virtues. I know, for example, that Trollope is considered to have been a brilliant novelist, but I've never quite understood what makes his fans so fervent. Still, our tastes change as we ourselves change and grow older, and perhaps in a few months or so Trollope will have become my new favorite writer. — Francine Prose

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time. — Scotty McCreery

What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure out how the universe works? Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us yet we can agree that no amount of tutelage will ever leave a chimp fluent in trigonometry. Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out? — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius. — Bob Dylan

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag