Tayin Bulmaca Quotes & Sayings

Previously, until a few years ago, it was customary for the Norwegian to be born with skis on his feet. But one of the improvements that has been made is that this is no longer the case*. Modern research has revealed, in fact, that this could be very uncomfortable and, to some extent, dangerous to the mother.
*It still happens that the birth takes place with skis on the feet, but now it is most often the mother who has the skis on during the birth. — Odd Borretzen

An enemy of your enemy might be your friend. But a friend of your friend isn't automatically your friend. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force — Ann Coulter

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy. — Mike Carey

Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment. — Mallory Ortberg

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten. — Paul Tillich

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation. — Madame De Stael

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer. — Platon

One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside the constraints of "normal" society still have romantic impulses and are capable of love and tenderness. Sometimes people cannot or don't want to acknowledge that pornographers are people too! — Bruce LaBruce

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal. — Geezer Butler

36. Man, thou hast been a citizen in this great state [the world]: what difference does it make to thee whether for five years [or three]? for that which is conformable to the laws is just for all. Where is the hardship then, if no tyrant nor yet an unjust judge sends thee away from the state, but nature who brought thee into it? the same as if a praetor who has employed an actor dismisses him from the stage. "But I have not finished the five acts, but only three of them." - Thou sayest well, but in life the three acts are the whole drama; for what shall be a complete drama is determined by him who was once the cause of its composition, and now of its dissolution: but thou art the cause of neither. Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied — Marcus Aurelius

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life. — Samuel L. Jackson

She seemed to have encompassed time. She postulated the elapsed years during which no honeymoon nor any change had taken place, out of which the (now) five faces looked with a sort of lifeless and perennial bloom like painted portraits hung in a vacuum, each taken at its forewarned peak and smoothed of all thought and experience, the originals of which had lived and died so long ago that their joys and griefs must now be forgotten even by the very boards on which they had strutted and postured and laughed and wept. — William Faulkner

I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work. — J. J. Hardy

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants — Paulo Coelho