Stropolis Quotes & Sayings

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message. — Robert Kiyosaki

She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its satin delicacy above the sunburn; her face was flushed with sleep, and her eyelids hung heavy over their pupils.The brim-fulness of her nature breathed from her.It was a moment when a woman's soul is more incarnate than at any other time; when the most spiritual beauty bespeaks itself flesh; and sex takes the outside place in the presentation. — Thomas Hardy

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beatrice: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.
Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? — William Shakespeare

Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are. — Margaret Atwood

Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there is too little of the juice of the jest. — G.K. Chesterton

I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped
for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years — Martin Heidegger

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare. — Russell Simmons

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton

I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names. — Taraji P. Henson

In moments of crisis, all you gotta do is review your multiplication tables, and it'll all blow over! — Andrea Camilleri

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential. — Bobby Orr