Vladimir Lem Quotes & Sayings

For some, gin was a vile and degrading venom, but for many others it was a thirst-quencher, a proof of virility, an aphrodisiac, a rite of passage, a tonic, a nourishment, a pacifier for children, a fount of confidence and inspiration for the preacher or the soapbox ranter. — Richard Barnett

I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one. — Robert A. Heinlein

Even five minutes of your time can make someone's day, — Melina Marchetta

Shakespeare had it wrong. Hell might know no fury like a woman scorned, but it really didn't know any fury like a woman manipulated. — Betsy St. Amant

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion. — Eddie Trunk

Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one. — Eckhart Tolle

My life depended on some math I'd done earlier. If I dropped a sign or added two numbers wrong, I might never wake up. — Andy Weir

In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion. — John Dewey

I've trained you to be as honest as any man who ever lived, but if virtue serves to guide our actions with our friends and allies, every sort of trick can be used against our enemies. That's why you were taught never to hunt a lion or a bear without some special advantage. Didn't that kind of lesson teach you cunning and deceit? — Xenophon

He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains. — Agatha Christie

How could you fall in love so fast, and more the point, why fall in love at all? It didn't make sense. Love complicated perfectly simple arrangements. Men, especially gay men, were not designed for monogamy. I had no desire to reproduce my genes so what was the point of a single committed relationship? — Fabian Black

Live like a man, fuck like an animal and die like a plant. — Claire Amber

For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was fighting. I got a pretty good blast when introduced. The crowd was hollering and raising hell. I looked around for my bodyguard, a colorful New York character named Wild Bill Lyons, who packed two pearl-handled pistols and used to talk a lot about his days in the West. Wild Bill was under the ring, hiding. — Jack Dempsey

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse. — Will Rogers

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too! — Friedrich Schiller