Schorbuser Quotes & Sayings

A: Absorbed in our discussion of immortality, we had let night fall without lighting the lamp, and we couldn't see each other's faces. With an offhandedness or gentleness more convincing than passion would have been, Macedonio Fernandez' voice said once more that the soul is immortal. He assured me that the death of the body is altogether insignificant, and that dying has to be the most unimportant thing that can happen to a man. I was playing with Macedonio's pocketknife, opening and closing it. A nearby accordion was infinitely dispatching La Comparsita, that dismaying trifle that so many people like because it's been misrepresented to them as being old ... I suggested to Macedonio that we kill ourselves, so we might have our discussion without all that racket.
Z: (mockingly) But I suspect that at the last moment you reconsidered.
A: (now deep in mysticism) Quite frankly, I don't remember whether we committed suicide that night or not. — Jorge Luis Borges

I just know that there's a spot for me in the industry. — SonReal

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you'll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost ... The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance. — Boyd K. Packer

The stars are so pretty. It's like they're speaking to us. — Naoshi Arakawa

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models. — Emma Bonino

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him. — Clarence Darrow