Ascetical Temperament Quotes

#1. Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

Andres Serrano

#2. Patience and Impatience are having tea discussing Time. The conversation goes on endlessly.

Natasha Tsakos

#3. If it had lips, we'd feel closer to it. All we need are eyes and lips, apparently, and we think we can say hello. I don't think I realized that before, how much we need the world to look like us.

David Vann

#4. A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

J. Arthur Thomson

#5. Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.

Trey Songz

#6. It began with a hello, and ended in hell.

Anthony Liccione

#7. I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.

Gloria Steinem

#8. Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor.

Anthony Doerr