The Jerk Carnival Quotes & Sayings

When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself. — Karel Appel

Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted. — Jane Fonda

The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There's something intimidating, yet exciting about a blank page. — Christopher Stocking

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green

I took a wrong turn the other day. A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found the very thing I'd been searching for. — Luci Shaw

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate. — Hannah Arendt

I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country. — Gabriela Isler

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it. — C.P. Snow

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus