Thingsveryspecial Quotes & Sayings

It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental. — Thubten Yeshe

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women. — Helen Keller

Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture. — Alex Kozinski

My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big. — Mike Birbiglia

I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana. — Tamsin Greig

In Atlantic City about to get my crunk on. I don't know what that means. — Blake Lewis

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose. — H.L. Mencken

It is not too surprising that, having been involved in a policy as evil and dehumanizing as apartheid, — Desmond Tutu

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given ... but we're cool nerds. — Jonathan Krohn