Svatkosky Quotes & Sayings

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself. — Carl Jung

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box. — Dirk Benedict

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin

My life is never stable. It' as if I balance on a series of tectonic plates like the ones under the Pacific Ring of Fire. — Mary Jennifer Payne

The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: I give you my life in this rose. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves. — Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

If I could have chosen a flag back then, it would have been embroidered with a portrait of Malcolm X, dressed in a business suit, his tie dangling, one hand parting a window shade, the other holding a rifle. The portrait communicated everything I wanted to be - controlled, intelligent, and beyond the fear. I would buy tapes of Malcolm's speeches - "Message to the Grassroots," "The Ballot or the Bullet" - down at Everyone's Place, a black bookstore on North Avenue, and play them on my Walkman. Here was all the angst I felt before the heroes of February, distilled and quotable. "Don't give up your life, preserve your life," he would say. "And if you got to give it up, make it even-steven." This was not boasting - it was a declaration of equality rooted not in better angels or the intangible spirit but in the sanctity of the black body. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Let my heart feel the joy,
see the beauty, all around me.
Still it may be in pure agony. — Debasish Mridha

For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work, of old friendships ... Other islands fade as I brood upon them. — Chuma Nwokolo