Seydelmann 160 Quotes & Sayings

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts. — Ben Affleck

We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it ... There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action, and Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to carry it out. — Edward Kennedy

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire life just reading all the classics, or one pretends to be 'contemporary and hip' and never reads any of the classics because in order to pretend to be contemporary one has to at least superficially read the works of contemporaries. Hence the dilemma: one either does not care about being fashionable, or one is fashionable and just learns to mimic some knowledge about the classics. As time develops this rift just becomes bigger, because the amount of books written grows and grows to insane proportions. Conclusion: one can only be hip in the future if one does not read at all, which is a phenomenon I am already witnessing in the media. — Martijn Benders

Spending the next nine hours with a crying woman wal real close to the top of his "Avoid at All Costs" list right under untimely death and a desk job. — Tara Janzen

My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles — Gustav Mahler

Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. — William Maxwell

He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' ... and then he opened his eyes. — Grant Morrison