Shaltz Quotes & Sayings

So darlin' close your eyes, 'cause you're about to miss everything — Pierce The Veil

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it. — Soren Kierkegaard

I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy. — Greg McHugh

There is no perception among the American people, nor their elected representatives, that there is a serious problem that needs fixing. — Robert Reischauer

By emotion I mean the modifications of the body, whereby the active power of the said body is increased or diminished, aided or constrained, and also the ideas of such modifications. — Baruch Spinoza

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. — Herbert Hoover

Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high grass, never see the boar in the thicket. Only a religious person can perpetrate sacrelige: and if its blasphemy reaches the heart of the question; if it investigates deeply enough to unfold, not the pattern, but the materials of the pattern, and the necessity of a pattern; if it questions so deeply that the doubt it arouses is frightening and cannot be dismissed; then it has done its true sacreligious [sic] work, in the service of its adversary: the only service that nihilism can ever perform.
(unused 1949 prefatory note to The Recognitions) — William Gaddis

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student. — John F. Carlson

[The media] are using a national treasure
that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses. — Amy Goodman

Dream of me, Maddy. See me as I want to be; not the nightmare who torments you, but the devoted and mystified man who worships at your feet. — M.S. Willis

Nanak wanted to preach people that God loves both the Hindus and the Muslims the same way. Believing in his spiritual encounter, he wanted to eliminate the distance between the Hindus and the Muslims by teaching the words of equality and One God. But just like usual, he ended up forming yet another religion which became more and more hardcore with its own rituals and regulations in the hands of the subsequent nine Gurus. — Abhijit Naskar

Well, what's Cecilia say today?" he asked, not bothering to rise. "Can't believe you two write each other every day. Doesn't it get boring? 'Dear Joseph, I went to town today and bought an egg. Then I boiled it and had breakfast. — Jack Lewis Baillot

We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us. — Terence McKenna

She stood out like a sunflower in a field of wheat. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Your eyes."
"What? What?" I scrubbed at them violently, horrified at the thought they might have those gross goopy things at the edges. Or were they even more bloodshot? I'd heard of that happening, where the whites ran with blood.
"I think ... the color's changing." He paused. "Is that even possible?"
"Is that all? Now you're the one scaring the crap out of me. — Alyxandra Harvey