Absents Europe Quotes

#1. Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

Robert Musil

#2. Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don't have feelings.

Martin McConnell

#3. Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

John Donne

#5. 'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

Patrick DeWitt

#6. Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

Junot Diaz

#7. This is slow work. . . .Is it not time for my pain-killer?

Samuel Beckett

#8. Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

Jane Austen

#9. We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#10. Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. Each patient carries his or her own doctor inside him or her. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

#12. My makeup is usually left over from the night before.

Kesha

#13. You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

Art Blakey