Karlos Torres Quotes

#1. Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

Fred Reed

#2. I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.

Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

#3. The Machine stops."
"What do you say?"
"The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."
She burst into a peal of laugher.

E. M. Forster

#4. The water is still and smooth. Polished glass. Not a ripple of wind disturbs the dark surface. Low-rising mist drifts off liquid mountains floating against a purple-bruised sky. An eager breath shudders past my lips. Soon the sun will break.

Sophie Jordan

#5. In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#6. A Scot can turn a perfectly decent name into a head-butt.

David Mitchell

#7. The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Lane Kirkland

#8. He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

Audrey Niffenegger

#9. I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

Corra May Harris

#10. Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Aldous Huxley