Utopie Librairie Quotes & Sayings

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep. — John F. Kennedy

Because, frankly, I have a tough time feeling that feminism has done a damn bit of good if I can't be the way I am and have the world accommodate it on some level. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did. — Max Barry

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. — Alexander Pope

Religion is such an icky, sticky thing, full of tortuous - well, everything. Why is it so essential for man to be forced, for that is what religion relies on, force, to believe in anything but himself? And this is what John Winthrop should represent for us: the utter disdain he and Puritanism have for the self, for the human, for the human being. — Larry Kramer

The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people. — Jimmy Wales

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. — Robert Payne

The good thing is Jason and I both outrank you so we can both tell you to shut up. — Rick Riordan

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. — Debbie Harry

You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist. — Barry Long

Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom. — N. T. Wright

The Mexicans have a fervent appreciation of poetry and make regular use of it. It occupies a high and ancient seat in the Mexican culture. The Aztecs called it "a scattering of jades," jade being what they valued most, far more than the gold for which they were murdered in great numbers by invading Spaniards. They felt that the more profound aspects of certain concepts, whether emotional, philosophical, political, or artistic, could be expressed only in poetry. — Linda Ronstadt

Choice: that was the thing. Other people claimed that you can't choose who you love
it just happens!
but Grace and Roman knew that was a bunch of happy horseshit. Of course you chose who you loved. If you didn't choose, you ended up with what was left
the drunks and abusers, the debtors and vacuums, the ones who ate their food too fast or had never read a novel. Damn, marriage was hard work, was manual labor, and unpaid manual labor at that. Yet, year after year, Grace and Roman had pressed their shoulders against the stone and rolled it up the hill together. — Sherman Alexie

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go. — Oscar Wilde

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. — John Muir