Sparite Calcite Quotes & Sayings

...mention chess and most people's eyes glaze over. They think of two old geezers, one of whom has died but no one has noticed, in overstuff armchairs at the Diogenes Club. — Charles Krauthammer

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. — John Ruskin

In his little speech to Alice, Humpty Dumpty sketches the future of human hopes and gives the clue to our salvation: to become masters of the words we speak, to make language answer our needs, Humpty Dumpty was a prophet, a man who spoke truths the world wasn't ready for. For all men are eggs, in a manner of speaking. We exist, but we haven't yet achieved the form that is our destiny. We are pure potential, an example of the not-yet-arrived. For man is a fallen creature
we know that from Genesis. Humpty Dumpty is also a fallen creature. He falls from his wall, and no one can put him back together again
neither his king, nor his horses, nor his men. But that is what we must all now strive to do. It is our duty as human beings to put the egg back together again. — Paul Auster

Money isnt what drives me, getting fans who truly understand what I'm about and want to see me live is where my head is at. — Hoodie Allen

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films. — Martin Freeman

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. — Isaac Barrow

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it. — Hunter S. Thompson

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth. — Philip Larkin

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable. — Mel Gibson

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist. — Jane Devin

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them. — Charles Bukowski

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection. — Stanley Hauerwas

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know. — William Rose Benet

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. — Dionysius I Of Syracuse