Sympa Quotes & Sayings

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records. — Afrika Bambaataa

The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock. Isn't it a magnificent day today? — Bel Kaufman

That's why you can eat cheesecake,' she said, and sighed. 'Because you don't. That's the way it works. — Ann Patchett

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought. — Albert Pinkham Ryder

Ahead, twin rows of crape myrtles dot the road. They're losing their flowers. Purple petals ring the trunks, fallen mementos of a past bloom like photos from college years. But unlike people, trees flower again in the spring; they age in great looping circles. We ride a roller coaster once around, shuddering up clacking tracks and then screaming our fool heads off all the way down. — Hugh Howey

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting. — Amy Heckerling

The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more. — Alan Kinross

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside. — Walter Darby Bannard

Struggle ends where commitment begins. — Sumner Davenport

The river was very real; it held him comfortably and gave him the time at last, the leisure, to consider this month, this year, and a lifetime of years. — Ray Bradbury

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms. — George Takei

Casual reliance on unnamed sources ... corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice. — Bill Keller

Now I know... we have at least two friends!... Cillie von Leiden and the hunchback... not bad in our situation... or, come right down to it, no matter where and when, peace, dead calm, wars, convulsions... so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them... shovelsful!... but hearts?... very rare! — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush. — Mark Shields

You're universally liked because you're such a black hole in space. You don't have any real traits. You're sympa, at least as much as a narcissist can be, but that means nothing. You're beautiful and everybody projects onto you what they're looking for, which is easy to do since you don't stand for anything definite. You're a black hole in space. — Edmund White

Nabokov changed my life," Max said. "I was going to be a writer, and then I read Lolita and I decided to go to law school instead. It looked easier. — Leslie Daniels