Vestale Fabric Quotes & Sayings

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels. — Eileen Myles

I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today. — Charlton Heston

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop. — Howlin' Wolf

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! — Luigi Pirandello

It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom it would seem meant to benefit, is directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind, and would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonweal. The first and most fundamental principle, therefore, if one would undertake to alleviate the condition of the masses, must be the inviolability of private property. — Pope Leo XIII

The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain - since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake. The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. — Douglas Adams

Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything. — Girdhar Joshi

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. — Fisher Ames

Tests provide the only reliable documentation of design. — Anonymous

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees. — Gilbert K. Chesterton