Alfonsas Svarinskas Quotes

#1. The roast meat the animal had snatched was only a semblance. It was more than food, it was a meal not for human witness, a tangle of viscera, a species of human sacrifice - as if Emerence were feeding the actual person to the dog, along with all her fond memories and feelings.

Magda Szabo

#2. The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.

George W. Bush

#4. The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

Gilbert Highet

#5. I'm reading more than ever. I've started on the left wall of the Carnegie Library and plan to read my way around the room.

Frances Mayes

#6. I love America. It's Americans I can't stand.

Charles M. Schulz

#7. Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

Norman Vincent Peale

#8. Serve God and be cheerful, look upward, beyond, beyond the darkness of masks, the surprises of dawn, in the deep green grasses of the blood-stained world.

Bob Dylan

#9. Anything you hide gives you pain; anything you hide makes your face darker; anything you hide puts a weight on you; anything you hide makes you feel very tired! The solution is: Don't hide anything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

David Foster Wallace