Samolis People Quotes & Sayings

She said, these dead petals,
honey, brought me here — Tori Amos

I had an approach where everything that's happening it should be as though it's an experience for somebody. So if you're experiencing a hurricane, if you're experiencing a car crash or whatever it is, you're only experiencing as yourself, you're not experiencing it from some objective point of view. — Jeff Baena

If a book did nothing else for you, other than to save you from the company of other people; if all it did was to deliver you from their gossip, and their dull affairs, and their appalling manners, and their rotten Arabic, and their stupid ideas, and their woefully misguided opinions, and above all, from the need to be polite to them; if a book did nothing more than that, it would still be the best friend you ever had. — Andrew Killeen

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution. — Glenn Greenwald

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. — Hippolyte Taine

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process — James Montgomery Boice

I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by. — Willi Smith

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion. — Sheldon Vanauken