Yiannis Papadopoulos Quotes & Sayings

To treat things with respect and intrigue, we don't need to understand their motivations and inner lives - whatever knowing the inner life of a tangelo or a floor tile would mean.4 We just need to pay enough attention to discover what they do and how they work - to discover what they obviously and truly are - and then to make use of them in gratifyingly novel ways. And — Ian Bogost

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful. — George R R Martin

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value. — Simone Weil

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley

I've never been a model; that's a misconception about me, and I don't know where it came from. — Julie Dreyfus

Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of a geometric order, and the transitory, changing forms of our actual world. The content of our experience results from an immaterial, abstract, geometric architecture which is composed of harmonic waves of energy, nodes of relationality, melodic forms springing forth from the eternal realm of geometric proportion. — Robert Lawlor

In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else ... No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly. — Leon Panetta

After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before. — Jeffrey R. Holland

While a part of me wants to know, another part of me is too exhausted to ask. — Tahereh Mafi