Zlfmtl Quotes & Sayings

I can't eat chicken and look at strippers at the same time. — Jerry Seinfeld

Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure. — Stanley Kubrick

Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions ... on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong. — Leslie Marmon Silko

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst. — Frank Wolf

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else. — Joanne Harris

He wakes up utterly bored and discomfited, chagrined to think that he did not die overnight. — Henry Miller

Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied. — Florida Scott-Maxwell