Szilaj Quotes & Sayings

Humor is the pensiveness of wit. — Robert Aris Willmott

James Bond just unscrews things — Terry Pratchett

Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach. — Roald Dahl

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people. — Ellen Douglas

Our parents resorted to the lash the way flagellants in the plague years resorted to the scourge. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush. — Marilu Henner

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies. — Richard Dreyfuss

It is their sense of space and time. They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life; there was once only the dust particles in space, the hot hydrogen gases, nothing more, and it will come again. This is an interval, ein Augenblick. — Philip K. Dick

Obviously I am a photographer and I believe in my medium: I do think that powerful photographs can force change. It doesn't take long to look and be engaged in a strong image whereas, with a story, you have to actually sit down and pause and be involved in it. — Lynsey Addario

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing. — Anna Meredith

Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook and crannies, developing their responses, making their contributions here and there, and helping to hand it on to succeeding generations. For some the temptation proves irresistible to go yet farther and make this the concern of their lives, letting society go its own sorry way while they lock themselves away in this abiding, socially transcendent cultural stronghold, acquiescing in society while pursuing Bildung. As Rotterdam burns, they study Sanskrit verb forms. — Nicholas Wolterstorff

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men. — Alice Von Hildebrand

The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to. — Winona LaDuke