Skenderija Dvorana Quotes & Sayings

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. — Don Roff

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary feature, it's nirvana! — Dori Berinstein

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump. — W.T. Purkiser

Draw the attention of those who do things out of spite, to something else, away from what you wish to avoid. — Nabil N. Jamal

It was like his code of honour. Work that needs doing should be done. Work is its own reward. Never step back from work or you look bad. — James Rebanks

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. — Michel Houellebecq

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. — Chaim Potok

Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory. Not knowing is rather an active, persistent, violent refusal; an erasure, a destruction of form and of representation. The fundamental essence of the death instinct, the instinct that destroys all psychic structure is apparent in this phenomenon. . . . The death drive is against knowing and against the developing of knowledge and elaborating [it]. — Dori Laub

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim,
And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em.
They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.' — Nas

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them. — Margaret Stohl

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect. — James Payn

Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases of music, these conceptions which exist in relation to our dream, must be nothing either. We shall perish, but we have as hostages these divine captives who will follow and share our fate. And death in their company is somehow less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps even less probable. — Marcel Proust

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. — John Brunner