Trancar Matricula Quotes & Sayings

You realize how many times you have to wet your thumb when you're counting out a million?"
"You're shitting me. They must have a machine or something."
"Right. A machine that wets their thumbs. — John Godey

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. — W. Somerset Maugham

I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath. — M. F. Husain

Frank Curry thinks I'm a soft touch. Might be because I'm a woman. Might be because I'm a soft touch. — Gillian Flynn

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering. — Sorin Cerin

I feel my writing comes from a desire to ... well, it's motivated by many things, but it's inherently a contradiction in that I'm writing for myself, and it's a very interior journey. On the other hand, I feel that writers do make that interior journey out of a desire to connect. — Jhumpa Lahiri

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work. — Alber Elbaz

They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy. — Solomon Northup

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race. — Benjamin Haydon

It had always been a part of his job which he found difficult, the total lack of privacy for the victim. Murder stripped away more than life itself. The body was parceled, labelled, dissected; address books, diaries, confidential letters, every part of the victim's life was sought out and scrutinized. Alien hands moved among the clothes, picked up and examined the small possessions, recorded and labelled for public view the sad detritus of sometimes pathetic lives. — P.D. James

This is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them. — Marquis De Sade

Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don't you think? For doing terrible things to other people. — Jennifer McMahon

Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse. — Jane Smiley