Martial Raysse Quotes

#1. In the bustling of the cities, forever surrounded by people and their chatter, we stand alone; an island of humanity. Build your raft, that you may drift into the heart and make real contact.

Martin Cosgrove

#2. Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

Carol Moseley Braun

#4. The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

Stephen Leacock

#5. There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

Ben Kingsley

#6. Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

Lauren Mackler

#7. English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature.

Daniel Kehlmann

#8. Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them

Kofi Annan

#9. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

William Cowper

#10. Every bit of you is worthy of your loving.

Pat Rodegast

#11. He was a futurist. They were all futurists. Everyone here gazed into the abyss for a living. Do it long enough, and the abyss would gaze back into you. If the abyss did that for long enough, the people who paid you for your eyes would send you to Normal Head. The

Warren Ellis

#12. I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

Irvin D. Yalom

#13. Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

John Hodgman

#14. No! Don't ask Patrick about sex." "He's a doctor," Olivia goes on. "He knows how bodies work." God, does he ever know how bodies work.

Leta Blake