Santimetri Quotes & Sayings

I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest of the population is the biggest problem. That is caused by two things: campaign finance and the way that's structured, and by the Citizen's United supreme court decision. So those two things are keeping democracy from working right. — Shepard Fairey

Time is, to put it in its most impressive and some might say poncy-sounding form, my domain. I can see things that once happened, even if they haven't happened any more. Well, if I concentrate. The new reality-the real reality- keeps asserting itself, even with me. But the other time line leaves echoes, ripples, if you look hard enough. — Jacqueline Rayner

I don't know why I've spent over half of
My life talking about dying — Wesley Eisold

GUARD YOUR WEAK POINT. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. - Bible. The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself: to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful and vile. - Plato. The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that. - John Sterling. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. - Seneca. The energy which issues in growth, or assimilates knowledge, must originate in self and be self-directed. - Thomas J. Morgan. — Orison Swett Marden

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions. — Jeff Bridges

Whether a general or a seller, what matters is that you do your job with responsibility. — Auliq Ice

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive. — Walter Jon Williams

He too,I think,should pray to the deathless ones himself.
All men need the gods ... — Homer

The purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise. — Atul Gawande

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success. — Anne Frank

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel. — Jason Reitman

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it? — Armand Assante

Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone. — James Sallis

Vimes' meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet very nagging suspicion that he'd only just escaped with his life. — Terry Pratchett