Tractate Quotes & Sayings

Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful. — Jo Nesbo

The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth. — Henry Miller

I should get a dog. I would get a rescue dog. I like mutts; I don't care. I would probably get a three-legged dog no one else would want. — Simon Cowell

The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace. — Cynthia Heimel

I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people. — Keith Rabois

I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts! — Walter Raleigh

One narrative, about the hated people in our lands, is that eventually they get what is coming to them. — Daniel Handler

People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

I don't see how that is any of your business. Stupid, shiny Volvo owner. — Stephenie Meyer

The first drops of rain started to fall.
'God's policemen,' said Jester.
'You what?'
'The police always used to pray for rain before any big demonstration because people wouldn't turn up. Nobody wants to run riot in the streets if it's pouring with rain. Who's going to want to fight in this? — Charlie Higson

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray. — Paul Dano

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company. — Jay-Z

Walt Disney: An American Original, "a man gave birth to a mouse. The mouse built the man an empire. — Jeffrey Barnes

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. — Dejan Stojanovic