Screwdrivered Quotes & Sayings

Come, come, be every one officious
To make this banquet; which I wish may prove
More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast. — William Shakespeare

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist ... ..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure. — Jean Dubuffet

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing. — Lawrence Eagleburger

I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can. — Eric Allman

Why ride a cowboy when you can ride a librarian? — Alice Clayton

I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them. — Aleksandar Hemon

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts? — H.G.Wells

Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be. — Laurel Nakadate

Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language. — David Levithan

I don't cheer when people lose their lives. — Martin McGuinness

The soul loves the body. And consider too how it is that the body is more in the soul than the soul is in the body. — Meister Eckhart

It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history. — E. M. Forster

We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom. — Irvin D. Yalom

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

But life- I'd come to find out- was pretty damn large. It coiled and wove and spun its own story, threading together tales to create an intricate, confusing saga. We didn't get our own book. We were all part of the same infinite one..... We weren't chapters. We weren't even sentences. My part in it was as insignificant as a letter on a page. — Megan Squires

I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog. — Ta-Nehisi Coates