Volapuk Polyglot Quotes & Sayings

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless. — Roland Emmerich

I was told afterwards, that some of those men who took me were professing Christians, but, to me, they did not seem to live up to what they professed; they did not seem, by their practice, at least, to recognise that God as their God, who hath said, 'thou shalt not deliver unto his master, the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee, he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose, in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not oppress him.'--Deut. xxiii, 15, 16 — Moses Roper

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box and stare, like Melville's Bartleby, day in and day out at the dead wall outside your window is in itself a rejection of the world which is said to be rejecting you. It is a way of saying, like Bartleby, 'I prefer not to' to every offer and every possibility, which is a condition no amount of social engineering will cure. — Al Alvarez

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. — Chuck Palahniuk

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. — Agatha Christie

Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties. — Steven Pinker

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal. — John W. Gardner

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs. — Mark Beauregard

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth. — Jessica Clark

They all reproduce themselves, they all make something intended for music, they all express a feeling in their hearts by the exercise we call dance, they all believe in the after life of the soul. This belief is as much a PART of any man, ever born in any location, as his hands and his feet. — Gene Stratton-Porter