The Corpse Exhibition Quotes & Sayings

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would. — Gillian Jacobs

I felt this beauty rather strangely. It was not desire, nor ecstacy, nor enjoyment that Masha
excited in me, but a painful though pleasant sadness. It was a sadness vague and undefined
as a dream. For some reason I felt sorry for myself, for my grandfather and for the
Armenian, even for the girl herself, and I had a feeling as though we all four had lost
something important and essential to life which we should never find again. — Anton Chekhov

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. — Aleister Crowley

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine ... — Edgar Allan Poe

I wanted to find one law to cover all of living. I found fear ... — Michael Ondaatje

The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the power of thought ... The inclination of most scholars is a kind of fuga vacui ( latin for vacuum suction )from the poverty of their own mind , which forcibly draws in the thoughts of others ... It is dangerous to read about a subject before we have thought about it ourselves ... When we read, another person thinks for us; merely repeat his mental process. So it comes about that if anybody spends almost the whole day in reading, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking. Experience of the world may be looked upon as a kind of text, to which reflection and knowledge form the commentary. Where there is a great deal of reflection and intellectual knowledge and very little experience , the result is like those books which have on each page two lines of text to forty lines of commentary — Will Durant

This is the place. I was certain. For the heart knows its home when it finds it, and on finding it, stays there. — Susan Fletcher

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us. — Nia Long

Many honours I want not, nor great treasures: they excite the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without a good name and a little treasure. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard. — Maxwell Caulfield

Beneath the St. Lucian sun, with a wisp of a tropical breeze, he kissed her with all the pent-up desire that had built within him since he'd first laid eyes on her. She parted her satiny, supple lips and he deepened their kiss, each sweep of her tongue sending a new wave of pleasure pulsing through him. — Tracy March

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead. — Grace Slick

He won't be happy till he gets it," said Michael, at last: "The only thing is, you see, he doesn't know what IT is. — John Galsworthy

Writing to make people smile — Dimas Abi

I didn't create poverty. This church didn't create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind. — Peter Akinola