Superiorite Des Quotes & Sayings

I had this great urge ... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying. — Dian Fossey

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice. — Terry Wogan

Science attacks our most cherished opinions. Opinions which come straight
from our collective gut. Oh, wait, according to gastroenterologists, the only thing that comes from the gut is waste left from the digestion of food. That's right, "waste." I guess that means that scientists literally think our opinions should be flushed down the toilet! — Stephen Colbert

But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable? — Stanislaw Lem

Facing him as I lower the glass from my lips, he's giving me one of those intense moonlit stares. — Poppet

There were crystal chandeliers, heavy glass with electric sparklights. It was all light, it was an island of light. 'We sneaked into one of the old balconies, the ones that were supposed to be unsafe and roped off. But we were boys, and boys will be boys, so they will. To us everything was dangerous, but what of that? Had we not been made to live forever? We thought so, even when we spoke to each other of our glorious deaths. — Stephen King

You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I liked Lost in Space," Stefan said.
"The movie or the TV series?"
"The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie," he said soberly. "It was better that way. — Patricia Briggs

Hope is not a plan of action. — Susan Jacoby

Dealing with experts is always tricky. Are they honest? Are they competent? How often are they right? My observation and best guess is that experts are right about 98 percent of the time on the easy stuff but only right 50 percent of the time on anything that is unusually complicated, mysterious, or even new. Years — Scott Adams

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes. — Nathaniel Rich

Man in the mass sinks unconsciously to an inferior moral and intellectual level, to that level which is always there, below the threshold of consciousness, ready to break forth as soon as it is activated by the formation of a mass.
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Since nobody is capable of recognizing just where and how much he himself is possessed and unconscious, he simply projects his own condition upon his neighbor, and thus it becomes a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas. — C. G. Jung

Traditionally, even numbers of flowers are only suitable for funerals and cemeteries. For all other occasions, Russians use an odd number of flowers. — Julia Gousseva