Zemon 40 Quotes & Sayings

During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word. — Shirley Jackson

I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being in any way in the way. — John Cage

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that. — Ice-T

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill. — Robert Shaw

We're individuals bound by a pattern of reciprocal obligation," I said. "If a group of chimps in the Amazon can be called a family, I think the Varners qualify."
-Ella — Lisa Kleypas

Every person has the inherent right to "self-proclaim"
to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on. — Robert Ringer

And this is precisely where the tension lies: Panthera tigris and Homo sapiens are actually very much alike, and we are drawn to many of the same things, if for slightly different reasons. Both of us demand large territories; both of us have prodigious appetites for meat; both of us require control over our living space and are prepared to defend it, and both of us have an enormous sense of entitlement to the resources around us. If a tiger can poach on another's territory, it probably will, and so, of course, will we. A key difference, however, is that tigers only take what they need. — John Vaillant

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel. — Louise Penny

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. — Norman Borlaug

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. — Ludwig Von Mises

Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it. — Linda Evangelista

His universe was an analogue being, probably as out of date as the gods are. — Steve Merrick

Brazil, always they buy from the United States. The first who was sell to the United States was football. — Pele

I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about someone's whole life. — John Irving

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking. — Yogi Berra