Serentak In English Translation Quotes & Sayings

Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it. — Jamaica Kincaid

Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell. I will never understand that but oh well. — Drake

Those who resist positive change will find themselves deformed, but those who embrace it will find themselves transformed. — Toni Sorenson

To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling. — June Squibb

Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians. — Adolf Hitler

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character. — Rhianna Pratchett

Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were. — Larry McMurtry

The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished. — Paul Simon

Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory. — Baudrillard Jean

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything. — Vladimir Kramnik