Ersilia Quotes

#1. They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other.

Italo Calvino

#2. When Aquatics are overwhelmed, they seek out the tallest object in view, lie on their backs, put their heads against it and look up. The ritual is called litill, and its purpose is to remind believers that they are actually quite small and, therefore, so are their problems.

Andrew Kaufman

#3. We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too.

James Joyce

#4. I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter. I don't necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up, though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That's just how I am.

Kobe Bryant

#5. I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?

Frank Herbert

#6. There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

Octavian Paler

#7. Science has taken away our religion.

Bryan Appleyard

#8. When you have a kid, money matters.

Tony Parsons

#9. You need to make some friends. Whether you like company or not, it's important to have friends."
"Why would I want friends when I have you?"
"You don't have me."
"I will. Do you want to know what makes me so sure of that? Because no other situation is acceptable to me.

Suzanne Wright

#10. There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Anna Held

#11. Sacredness inspires respect.

Toba Beta

#12. When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

Thucydides

#13. The dead were too ...present.

Chris Bohjalian

#14. Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great, but I started to think that people will soon get bored from it. I have said to myself: "If you are going to go on being a superstar, you have to sing!"

Verka Serduchka