Nay Sayer Quotes

#1. How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the nay-sayer to life," he thought

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#2. Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. I hate doctors! They'll do anything ... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

Eugene O'Neill

#4. I remember being young in the 1960s ... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#5. This "freedom" put a proud people in chains
And turned free men into slaves
"Independence" made us weak
And slaughtered us
In the name of kindness
This is democracy by the whip
And the fear of chains
With a whirlwind at its core

Abdul Salam Zaeef

#6. A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Catherine The Great

#7. When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#9. I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Amy Winehouse

#10. Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do ...

Sheila Heti

#11. The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

Franz Wright