Disrespectfully Speaking Quotes

#1. Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.

Paul Di Filippo

#2. Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

Isabel Allende

#3. Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health.

Tom Drury

#4. She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.

Ovid

#5. The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.

Russell Baker

#6. Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

Confucius

#7. You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

Shams Tabrizi

#8. Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.

Megan McKenna

#9. You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to do it.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#10. There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

Oscar Wilde