Tantalising Or Tantalizing Quotes & Sayings

The postmodern poststructuralists go from saying "there is no final perspective" (or "perspectives are boundless") to saying "therefore there is no advantage in any perspective over another." This leveling of perspectives is not an interrelation of all perspectives but is itself merely one particular and covertly privileged perspective (and thus ends up, as we have seen, being perfectly self-contradictory: there is no advantaged perspective except mine, which maintains that all other perspectives are not so privileged). — Ken Wilber

I was born by Caesarian section ... but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window. — Steven Wright

If a man ... would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it. — James K. Polk

Pornography is not in the hands of the child who discovers his sexuality by masturbating, but in the heart of the adult who slaps him. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Catelyn dreamt that Bran was whole again, that Arya and Sansa held hands, that Rickon was still a babe at her breast. Robb, crownless, played with a wooden sword, and when all were safe asleep, she found Ned in her bed, smiling — George R R Martin

Art is the signature of man. — G.K. Chesterton

Even in the toughest of times ... don't give up hope. It may look dark but you will find the sun standing behind even the darkest of clouds. — Timothy Pina

When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter, — Sean Lennon

I do not know, but they are very rough. I suppose they would do almost anything for money. They smell strongly of liquor." Slowly — Arthur M. Winfield

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever. — Lysander Spooner

This is what happens when your life is authored not by God, but by David Mamet. — Jess Walter

People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people. — Kid Rock

And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort — Fyodor Dostoyevsky