Wyspa Wolin Quotes & Sayings

You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it. — Neil Postman

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me. — Tom Stoppard

PLEASE BELIEVE that I am falling apart. I am not speaking metaphorically; nor is this the opening gambit of some melodramatic, riddling, grubby appeal for pity. I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug - that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams. In short, I am literally disintegrating, slowly for the moment, although there are signs of acceleration. I ask you only to accept (as I have accepted) that I shall eventually crumble into (approximately) six hundred and thirty million particles of anonymous, and necessarily oblivious, dust. — Salman Rushdie

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

An enemy of your enemy might be your friend. But a friend of your friend isn't automatically your friend. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs. — Gene Simmons

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers. — Kirk Douglas

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever. — Al Gore

Need for a "speaker for the dead" and for the living. — Orson Scott Card

(Imagine a world where all religious groups can simply freeze their beliefs and not have to interact with the culture.) — Marci A. Hamilton

But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent. — Catherynne M Valente

This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen. — Lionel Shriver

The true freaks are the ones who don't believe, the narrow-minded people who have no faith, who can't see what's right in front of their eyes. — Kristi Cook

I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic. — Erika M. Anderson

It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons. — Hal Elrod