Sebass Quotes & Sayings

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans. — Jane Addams

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am. — Sandra Cisneros

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. — Herman Melville

If atoms were no longer tiny bits of matter but ghosts of swirling energy, if the universe operated as a whole rather than as a machine with countless separate parts, if time can bend and two particles separated by billions of light years can communicate instantly, disregarding the speed of light, our understanding of the human body needs to be totally reframed. — Deepak Chopra

Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops purely on its own lines (...) So far from being the creation of its time, it is usually in direct opposition to it, and the only history that it preserves for us is the history of its own progress. (...) In no case it represents its age. To pass from the art of a time to the time itself is the great mistake that all historians commit. — Oscar Wilde

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid. — Don Rickles