Teshale Fikarte Quotes & Sayings

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery. — Noam Chomsky

What they call philosophy I call literature; what they call literature I call journalism; what they call journalism I call gossip; and what they call gossip I call (generously) voyeurism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity. — Andre Gide

There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace it by others - this bears witness that one is about to be found unworthy, that one has already doubtless proved unworthy of innocence ... — Andre Breton

The shadow and flutter of Constant's helicopter settling to the heliport seemed to many of the people below to be like the shadow and flutter of the Bright Angel of Death. It seemed that way because of the stock-market crash, because money and jobs were so scarce - And it seemed especially that way to them because the things that had crashed the hardest, that had pulled everything down with them, were the enterprises of Malachi Constant. — Kurt Vonnegut

The only Messiah still credible after the death camps would be one who wanted to come but could not because humans failed to invite the sacred stranger into existence. — Richard Kearney

My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many. — Michael Scott

A book brings its own history to the reader. — Alberto Manguel

What pleases us in those who are rising is less pleasing in those who are falling. We do not admire the combat when there is no danger; and in any case, the combatants of the first hour alone have the right to be the exterminators in the last. He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity. He alone who denounces the success has a right to proclaim the justice of the downfall. — Victor Hugo

If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp wherever you gocourting, not courting, that is not the point. Wherever you go, whatsoever you do, always do it in the inner light, with awareness. — Rajneesh

Art should create an experience. — Eric Fischl

The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues. — Anne Lamott

And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart - that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she had put herself outside it, banished herself to her corner. For all that, it was a good thing that it was so good to live - for the others, for all who had not undone themselves. And when at that moment she felt a violent quickening of the child within her, her own heart seemed to stir and answer it - No, no, I no longer wish you ill ... — Sigrid Undset

The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have. — Katherine Howe