Bergantino Audio Quotes

#1. Only an academic could state the obvious and pass it off as wisdom." -Moist Von Lipwig (T.P., Going Postal)

Terry Pratchett

#2. Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#3. The only thing fairytales have taught us is the slipper doesn't always fit, the kiss won't always wake you, and the prince won't always fight for you. However, one thing that rings true, the apple will ALWAYS be poisoned.

Samuel Crone

#4. The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

Hans Hofmann

#5. My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.

Mona Simpson

#6. Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

Jose Saramago

#7. Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. Better a live dog than a dead prince

Philip K. Dick

#9. You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

Richelle Mead

#10. Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality.

Ken Wilber

#11. Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

H.L. Mencken

#12. It is not hard," Ifemelu said firmly. "You are using the wrong comb." And she pulled the comb from Aisha's hand and put it down on the table.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#13. ...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins.

Cindee Snider Re