The Cyberiad Quotes & Sayings

under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable. — Geraldine Brooks

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks. — Joe Pantoliano

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand. — Samuel Pepys

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect. — Elisabeth Elliot

From Spain expect only cold winds and cold wives.'" "Ah, so you don't think they get on, then? — Jose Saramago

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
Fables for Our Time, Moral of "The Owl Who Was God" (1940) — James Thurber

Have it compose a poem- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter S!!" [sic] ... .
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide."
("The First Sally (A) or The Electronic Bard"
THE CYBERIAD) — Stanislaw Lem

Here is a guaranteed way to get more of what you want: want less. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Breath Properly, Stay Curious, and Always Eat Your Beets! — Tom Robbins

The Orient is watched, since its almost (but never quite) offensive behavior issues out of a reservoir of infinite peculiarity; the European, whose sensibility tours the Orient, is a watcher, never involved, always detached, always ready for new examples of what the Description de l'Egypte called "bizarre jouissance." The Orient becomes a living tableau of queerness. — Edward W. Said

Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us. — Umberto Boccioni

Omnipotence is most omnipotent when one does nothing! — Stanislaw Lem

One eye open, one still in a dream. — Markus Zusak

As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint. — Jean Piaget