Concrete Basement Quotes

#1. I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.

Bill Keller

#2. Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

Daniel Quinn

#3. No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

William Butler Yeats

#5. Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai

Carlson Gracie

#6. I'm not sure I'd like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be both environmentally friendly and a lovely treat for the larger carnivores. Could you request that?

Gail Honeyman

#7. Dare to love yourself

Aberjhani

#8. Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrently with this and the previous point, I'm interested in making up cultures that are different

Marie Brennan

#9. You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

John Gielgud

#10. He never rested until he had lost everything. For him gambling was a method of self-punishment as well.

Anonymous

#11. basement concrete

Nicholson Baker

#12. It's hard to put a dollar value on that advice. It's the kind of thing that continues to pay dividends. But make no mistake: The advice had tangible economic value.

J.D. Vance

#13. Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.

Alister E. McGrath