Vom Kriege Quotes & Sayings

I'm just as unhappy about San Antonio as I was about Chicago. If you're unhappy about certain things, you're unhappy everywhere. — Sandra Cisneros

So I was at the gas station the other day, and I saw that there was braille on the pumps. I don't see how they can cater to blind drivers. I mean, there are certain rights you should lose once you lose what makes you a person. — Zach Braff

The best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime. — Susan L. Taylor

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated. — Evan Parker

The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. — Sigmund Freud

The creature had nut-brown skin mixed with patches of ash. It was human-sized and formed, but its skin looked like the bark of an old, old tree. About the same height as Donna, it was spindly with arms and legs that were all joints and angles. Its face was narrow and pointed, with hair on top of its head like thick moss and narrow black eyes that glinted even in the dim light of the room. The thing's body was clothed in lichen and moss, with vines twining around its sharp limbs. The creature opened its lipless mouth, a dark slash across its twisted face.

Donna's mind flashed back to the party and the shadow she'd seen sliding through the darkness outside Xan's house. She hadn't been imagining things, after all.

The wood elves had returned to the city. — Karen Mahoney

I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secret of Siddhartha. — Hermann Hesse

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it. — Bob Dole

Love is sweeping the country. — Ira Gershwin

Hands-Off Parenting Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary: The baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag. RITA RUDNER — Anonymous

'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives ... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful. — C. C. H. Pounder