Maarten Baas Quotes

#1. For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

James G. Frazer

#2. The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#3. And yet you will; and yet another 'yet'.

William Shakespeare

#4. Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

Irving Penn

#5. Pretending often ends when you allow nonpretenders access to the better, safer worlds you create for yourself.

Matthew Quick

#6. There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

Langston Hughes

#7. I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

Beyonce Knowles

#8. (Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

Nelson Algren

#9. I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

Jack Kilby

#10. Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.

Laini Taylor

#11. If the kids don't believe, make them believe.

Alex Gaskarth

#12. They didn't tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

Buzz Aldrin

#13. Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

Drew Carey

#14. One all-extending soul connects each being, greatest with the least; made beast in aid of man, and man in aid of beast; All served, all serving; nothing stands alone; the chain holds on, and where it ends, unknown.

Alexander Pope

#15. The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

Betty Dodson