Straszewskiego Quotes & Sayings

Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach. — Marcel Duchamp

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. — Paul Tsongas

Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated ... what is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man and from nature. — Erich Fromm

You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future. — Frederick Lenz

Imagination is more valuable than information. — Albert Einstein

And one of our vocabulary words was nonconformist. I just dug that word. I heard the explanation, the definition, and I felt like I had just learned about a new hero in a kick-ass Marvel comic book. — Nick Offerman

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think 'My life will be upside down' don't worry. How do you know down is not better than upside? — Shams Tabrizi

Oh, Potter, you rotter, oh, what have you done,
You're killing off students, you think it's good fun - — J.K. Rowling

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze. — Gautama Buddha

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. — David Zucker

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not. — Creed Bratton

Your life will get better if you truly believe it will. First ... You must plant that seed of faith and then sprinkle it with patience because anything good in life takes time. But if you don't give up you will see changes. It's all up to you! — Timothy Pina

What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing to give up whatever they may have come with. So it's still quite a stretch for African Americans, yeah. — Michael Emerson

I have so many boxing gloves around my house that I would get them confused with other gloves. — Mickey Rourke

We fall asleep on words / we wake among words — Zbigniew Herbert