Zizzi Napkin Quotes & Sayings

Someone had already remarked that Bruckner had been Hitler's favorite composer, someone else, that there was something wrong with any young person who really enjoyed the late Beethoven; someone had already confided that the soap business in America amounted to seven million dollars a year, someone else that advertising amounted to seven billion. — William Gaddis

Solitude may rust your words. — Anais Nin

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal. — J.K. Rowling

People are fascinating, aren't they, the closer you get to knowing what makes them tick? — Kate Morton

When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living
to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and think critically
they can be easily manipulated by fear and propaganda. A democracy is only as wise as its citizens, and a democracy of ignorant citizens can be as dangerous as a dictatorship. — Paul K. Chappell

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed. — Larry Wall

An ecosystem, you can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it might affect the environment. We have such a miserably poor understanding of how the organism develops from its DNA that I would be surprised if we don't get one rude shock after another. — Richard Lewontin

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far. — Greg Boyle