Wikoff Ink Quotes & Sayings

Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon - parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms of their hands, mesmerized like drug addicts, longing for some artificial connection while their own flesh and blood careened wildly through a chaotic and violent world behind their backs. The writer was even worse. He invented false worlds and peopled them with ghosts while his motherless son scanned the horizon for a human connection. It was shameful. What did a man need to lose to be shaken from his immersion in a dream? What terminal force could liberate him from the pursuit of phantoms and engage him in the living world around him? — Douglas Wynne

We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self. — William Gibson

Though harsh in other respects, prison would be an excellent place to learn a foreign language - total immersion, and you'd have the new slang before it even hit the streets. — David Sedaris

As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups. — Matt Kuchar

It seemed wrong, she thought, that there should be such beauty in the world on a day like this. — Kate Mosse

Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business. — Jack Ma

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. — Karl Kraus

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more. — Martin Scorsese