Temminckii Quotes & Sayings

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force — William Woodruff

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians. — Robert Fripp

Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time. — P. J. O'Rourke

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently. — C.S. Lewis

She wanted commitment? He's tattoo her fucking name on his forehead if he had to. — Joanna Wylde

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. — Helene Hanff

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal. — Tom Robbins

when Neil finally bled to death, he was truly worthy of salvation. And God sent him to Hell anyway. Ethan — Ted Chiang

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away. — Colin Stetson