Torkelson Quotes & Sayings

For millennia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his existence as a living being in question — Michel Foucault

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich.
Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists ... — Kendrick Lamar

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication. — Dennis Oppenheim

That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves. — D.H. Lawrence

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now. — Mariska Hargitay

Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event. — Caroline Myss

Every time she used his name it was putting a pat of butter on a slice of botulism. — Brian McGreevy

People gravitated here for the open air, the prolific intoxicants and the visual treats. They made the deals here that were later played out elsewhere. They drank and got high. Sometimes they fought, not for money but for sport or grudge.

They were the desperate and the daring, the lost and the searching. Tonight, they were his audience. Tomorrow, they would be his front line. — G.S. Jennsen

Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life. — McKayla Maroney

If the American taxpayer knew how much they paid per person to put Neil Armstrong on the moon they would never have paid it. It was hidden from them deliberately because the costs were astronomical. — Danny Boyle

Don't forget your history nor your destiny — Bob Marley

Someone, and no matter where, collects the pieces of my shadow. — Claude Esteban

I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good. — George Packer

Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess. — Clive James