Selbex Quotes & Sayings

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence. — Michel Foucault

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required. — Brandon Sanderson

The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date. — Jacques Antoine

A fiery spirit bursts from your soul. — A.D. Posey

Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition. The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing. — Jane Pauley

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before. — Shaun Hick

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt. — Alton Brown

Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at. — Nikolai Gogol

How many schoolteachers were aware of what they actually were a part of? Surely a number close to zero. In schoolteaching, as in hamburger-flipping, the paycheck is the decisive ingredient. No insult is meant, at bottom this is what realpolitik means. We all have to eat. — John Taylor Gatto