Visotsky Quotes & Sayings

When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free. — Shunryu Suzuki

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material. — Anton Yelchin

I cannot stand no wack MC.
So step back if you please,
And don't test me, you're history. — Del Tha Funkee Homosapien

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time. — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Doth God exact day-labor, light denied,'
I fondly ask; but patience to prevent
That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts, who best
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best, his state
Is kingly. Thousands at His bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait.'
~Sonnet 19: On His Blindness (1655)~ — John Milton

James Benwick is rather too piano for me; — Jane Austen

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators. — George Bernard Shaw

For the antifragile, shocks bring more benefits (equivalently, less harm) as their intensity increases (up to a point). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality. — James Joyce

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged. — Indira Gandhi

As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart. — Jane Casey

Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it. — Katherine Anne Porter