Wywrot Quotes & Sayings

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space. — Will Rogers

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this? — Haruki Murakami

The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I'll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I've failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I'm really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. — Tullian Tchividjian

I think I coulda landed on a dime. I really do. — Evel Knievel

In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state of dynamic disequilibrium and behave quite differently from what would be considered normal by the theory of efficient markets. Such boom/bust sequences do not arise very often, but when they do, they can be very disruptive, exactly because they affect the fundamentals of the economy. — George Soros

World is not destroying because the standard of living has been deteriorated, it is destroying because the standard of faith is deteriorated. — S.M.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. — Camille Paglia

A modern literary intellectual lives and writes in constant dread - not, indeed, of public opinion in the wider sense, but of public opinion within his own group. — George Orwell

Krebs, who knew some Russian and at one stage in his career had been embraced by Stalin, was "a smooth, surviving type." And so, with almost incredible effrontery, he tried to talk to Chuikov as an equal, opening the conversation with the general comment:
"Today is the first of May, a great holiday for our two nations ... "
With seven million Russian dead, half his country devastated, and fresh evidence mounting daily of the unspeakable barbarity with which the Germans had treated Soviet captives and civilians, Chuikov's answer was a model of restraint, a standing testimony to the cool head and dry wit of that remarkable man. He said:
"We have a great holiday today. How things are with you over there it is less easy to say. — Alan Clark

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. — Vladimir Nabokov