Unlondon Art Quotes & Sayings

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it. — Jason Patric

Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit. — Thomas Pynchon

It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism. — John Ramsay McCulloch

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. — Roy Basler

If we were sensible we would seek death
the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. — H.P. Lovecraft

Someone created all of this, all of the beauty of the earth, all of the fragility of human life and all of the extraordinary existence of us. Choosing to believe in a god only when you are surrounded by death and destruction is to truly not know God at all. — Rachel Higginson

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. — Sydney J. Harris

Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down. — Susanna Kaysen

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought. — Frederick Lenz

Some people are just sad, all of the time. Too sad to deal with - everything. Life, I guess. I don't know. There doesn't always have to be a reason. — Hannah Harrington

If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot at from a plane. — Bill Maher

Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul ... — B.K.S. Iyengar

The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history." — Paul Fry