Gulag Survivor Quotes

#1. The sand storm carries words but feelings not even a hurricane.

Gwen Calvo

#2. Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.

Felix Dennis

#3. For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

Anthony Bourdain

#4. Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Henry Rollins

#5. If my words are the only power I have, I intend to use them well.

Loretta Lost

#6. We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

Elizabeth Janeway

#7. You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

Trey Parker

#8. Some day ... after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.

David Nicholls

#10. I cursed and rubbed my forehead. The radio sang its bigotry in perfect '80s pop harmony. Let's send 'em aaallllllll ba-ack to Aaaaafrica . . . I reached down to the knob, to find the radio was already off. Here we fucking go.

David Wong

#11. After the kiss some of it still sparkled in the air around her.

Karen Foxlee

#12. Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

Aga Khan III

#13. I am just a ballplayer on vacation. Why are these things happening to me ?

Hal Graff

#14. They knew a tremendous number of things - But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing?

Hermann Hesse