Sorbona Quotes & Sayings

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway. — Frank Zappa

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist. — Geoff Rickly

He who is kind to animals heaven will protect. — Gautama Buddha

...there was still the thrill of those opening credits that carried us through the harder times, that sustained our faith in a city that often didn't show much faith in us. — David Levithan

Call school," I called to her at the door. "Tell them I'm lovesick." -Raven — Ellen Schreiber

You own your own island?
Doesn't every Greek tycoon? — Lynne Graham

We didn't deny the obvious,
but we didn't entirely accept it either.
I mean, we said hello to it each morning
in the foyer. We patted its little head
as it made a mess in the backyard,
but we never nurtured it. Many nights the obvious showed up
at our bedroom door, in its pajamas,
unable to sleep, in need of a hug,
and we just stared at it like an Armenian,
or even worse - hid beneath the covers
and pretended not to hear its tiny sobs. — Jeffrey McDaniel

And if we're talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum. — Nic Pizzolatto