Shnooks Quotes & Sayings

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism. — Joichi Ito

That fairy tale was the nearest thing to the real truth that has been said today. — G.K. Chesterton

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. — Doris Lessing

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. — Irene Khan

Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight?
Ichigo: Five people and a cat — Tite Kubo

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others — Jose Saramago

As president of the United States, I don't bluff. — Barack Obama

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book. — Mark Z. Danielewski

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. — Patti Smith

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. — Nick Cave

I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era,
then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem. — John Jay Chapman

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself. — Henry Rollins

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable. — Bryce Dallas Howard