Witkiewicz Stanislaw Quotes & Sayings

Walk to the well.
Turn as the earth and the moon turn,
circling what they love.
Whatever circles comes from the center. — Rumi

The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can 'beat it' and there's never enough. At least in my opinion - cause there are people, who complain about style intensity in literature: they prefer cereals with milk than abyssinian bitches roasted alive on bringhausers and watered with ya-yoo juice. — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?'
Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on.
For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her. — Lloyd Alexander

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws. — Robert Kirkman

There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world. — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness. — Paul Theroux

I'm banking on my ERA (Eternal retirement account) more than my IRA! Do you have an ERA? — Evinda Lepins

We aren't called to do all conceivable good, which would be impossible for us, but rather to maximize the opportunities that we have. — Matt Perman

I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me. — Bill Watterson

There must be repressed truth even in lies. — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak. — Ihab Hassan

Some champions of ever-greater governmental power and spending invent the theory that the taxpayers, left to themselves, spend the money they have earned very foolishly, on all sorts of trivialities and rubbish, and that only the bureaucrats, by first seizing it from them, will know how to spend it wisely. — Henry Hazlitt

What do you want?" I grumbled, not really sure if I was imagining his voice or not.
"I'm not a figment of your imagination."
"Then how did you know what I was thinking if you're not all in my mind? Besides, that's just what a figment would say." I scrunched up my face in a display of my skepticism — D.T. Dyllin

Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence? — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

What, I'm a mechanic. I get dirty. If he wanted me to get all gussied up, he should have commend ahead. — Marissa Meyer

In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage. — Bobby Brown