Telleria Basque Quotes & Sayings

For a poet the world is always static in the sense that you're a mass observer and you can't afford to care whether people are busy or not. You're a witness. — Iain Sinclair

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate. — Rosie Thomas

Was the Younger Dryas cold event that began so suddenly and so mysteriously 12,800 years ago brought on by the effects of a large comet hitting the earth? — Graham Hancock

I feel ill with emotional indigestion: I don't think I've ever felt for Mo the kind of raw, priapic lust I feel for Ramona, but Ramona is a poisonous bloom - off-limits if I value my life. — Charles Stross

Beauty can only fight the truth for so long... — Soman Chainani

Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. — Catherynne M Valente

The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm. — Alexander Kotov

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up. — Stone Gossard

J.B. Bury once followed Pascal in suggesting that the cause of the foundation of the Roman Empire was the length of Cleopatra's nose: had her features not been perfectly proportioned, Mark Antony would not have been entranced; had he not been entranced he would not have allied himself with Egypt against Octavian; had he not made that alliance, the battle of Actium would not have been fought - and so on. — Alasdair MacIntyre

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. — Denis Waitley