Translucid Dex Quotes & Sayings

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast." — Ishmael Reed

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. — Oscar Wilde

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind. — Albert Hofmann

The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies. — Al Franken

I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right. — Sevyn Streeter

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? — Henry David Thoreau

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week. — Dick Van Patten

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration, centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god. But this is impossible. Is there any more cogent indication of my creaturehood than the insufficiency of my own will? For I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. When I give it pleasure, it deceives my expectation and makes me suffer pain. When I give myself what I conceive to be freedom, I deceive myself and find that I am the prisoner of my own blindness and selfishness and insufficiency. — Thomas Merton

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. — Christopher Hitchens

The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand. — Andrew Peterson

I'd rather win than be a showman. — John Higgins

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day? — George Carlin

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made. — Georges Simenon

Occasionally a few bubbles would eructate to the surface like the ghosts of beans on bath night. — Terry Pratchett