Svelatron Quotes & Sayings

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that. — Will Ferrell

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. — Philip K. Dick

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions. — Viktor E. Frankl

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love. — Dwight L. Moody

How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is. — Albert Camus

Life didn't promise to be wonderful. — Teddy Pendergrass

I've already lost a piece of my mind. I can't trust you with what's left. — Katie McGarry

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't. — Saint Augustine

I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript. It is an homage to Wallace Stevens that appropriates certain of his techniques. — David Lehman