Torild Skogsholm Quotes & Sayings

For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it.

Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves. — Paulo Coelho

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility. — William Shakespeare

We need to make our own miracles, it is a wasted exercise to just wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy and desire to make them come true. — Steven Redhead

There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man
hitherto detestable
having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them. — Arthur Rimbaud

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it. — Trisha Yearwood

Many shooters ask the gamer to use violence against pure, unambiguous evil: monsters, Nazis, corporate goons, aliens of Ottoman territorial ambition. Yet these shooters typically have nothing to say about evil and violence, other than that evil is evil and violence is violent. This was never the most promising thematic carbon to trace, and yet shooters keep doing so with as little self-questioning as a medieval monk copying out scripture. — Tom Bissell

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide. — Robert Paul Weston

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical. — John Wooden

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president. — Howard Dean

I don't ravish women, if that's what you're thinking," he said.
"Oh, no," she said. "I had supposed that women stood in line waiting for you to relieve them of their virtue. — Loretta Chase

contemptuous cough — Anton Chekhov

It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint. — Alfred Wegener