Leonilda Boat Quotes

#1. As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. One: I am proud to say that my vampires do not sparkle.
Two: I feel like in literature that we've gone [this way] towards the kissing vampires side of the needle. I think it's time we go back towards the killing vampires side of the needle.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#3. Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

Alberto Giacometti

#4. Freeze when you are angry: your brain needs time to cleanse the anger!

Ravi Samuel

#5. I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that I think I discovered about those additional years is that I don't think they really are added to the end of life.

Anna Quindlen

#6. People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

Martina Navratilova

#7. You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity.

Jeanne Safer

#8. It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

John Yoo

#9. It must not be supposed that the heavens or the luminaries are endowed with life(3). For they are inanimate and insensible(4). So that when the divine Scripture saith, Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad(5), it is the angels in heaven and the men on earth that are invited to rejoice.

John Damascene

#10. APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

Ambrose Bierce

#11. Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. Yet despite these advantages, England's empire remained unlaunched until the seventeenth century. The problem is a dog-in-the-night

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto