Shabituer Quotes & Sayings

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. — Jim Hightower

I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled with the crowd, I mixed with my fellow men, speaking my thought out loud! And they gaped back at me, without understanding. And I withdrew from them, & they said to me: Arrogant one! And from time to time in my solitude, my loves, my repressed enthusiasms broke out into odes, conversation; & my companions laughed and used to point at me as a madman. So I suffered, doubted, cursed, & no one believed me sincere. It's as if this heart, once so full of strength & love were annihilated. — Comte De Lautreamont

The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading. — Michael Silverblatt

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults. — John F. Kennedy

People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism. — Invader

My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to his business, it soon deserted me, for I was busy writing poetry, and could not attend to law, and my clients, though they had great respect for my talents, had no faith in a poetical attorney. — Washington Irving

Sparhawk's reputation must have preceded him. The Massachusetts coast, as he was often reminded, was shaped like an ear. It heard everything. — Donna Thorland

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back. — Jonathan Ames

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you. — Sam Elliott

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land. — Alison Lurie

All it takes is common sense to understand that the Rajapaksa administration has vandalised every layer of the country's resources to get rid of political obstacles while minimising the space available to facilitate the sharing of authentic political dissent. At the same time the opposition appears to be caged. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh. — Verne Troyer

Popularity is not the mark of a properly rigorous academic work. — Pat Murphy