Svojeglava Quotes & Sayings

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

(Yovel) "Jubilee," said Maire. "The day when all debts are forgiven."..."Yes," said Mr.Baram. "In the old holy books, there was a commandment that every fifty years, all debts were to be forgiven, all slaves were to be freed and all property returned. You are marked with the word of that commandment. — Alex London

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word. — Ron Finley

Any tool can be used badly. — Conrad Wolfram

The classical writers ... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. — Timothy West

Peacefully
The quiet stars came out, one after one;
The holy twilight fell upon the sea,
The summer day was done. — Celia Thaxter

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. — Clive Barnes

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare

I do not wish to shine. I prefer shadows, quiet, periods of solitude. I do not wish to be noticed. If one is all but invisible to others, one cannot be envied, inspire anger or suspicion. Near invisibility is a way of life that I recommend. — Dean Koontz

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party. — Kathy Griffin

Words are a homeland. — Mahmoud Darwish

Calvin: I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Want to see my book report?
Hobbes: (Reading Calvin's paper) "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender modes."
Calvin: Academia, here I come! — Bill Watterson

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO

Everything is mucho simpler in a hospital, including jokes — Ernest Hemingway,