Nunta Muta Quotes

#1. It's hard to force creativity and humor.

Al Yankovic

#2. I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Nate Silver

#3. We must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

Angela Carter

#4. Power is neither good nor evil.

Kami Garcia

#5. The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things that a monarch does. The lot determines offices, power is held accountable, and deliberation is conducted in public.

Herodotus

#6. Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

Kevin Hart

#7. I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

Bobby Fischer

#8. It could be argued that the reaction to a work of art is a creative act which is the counterpart of the action of the artist.

Frank Willett

#9. Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin arrives
ruin does not leave
it comes tolling over the generations
it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor
and all your thrashed coasts groan

Anne Carson

#10. Americans don't like to stand by while innocent people are killed and watch a human disaster unfold. It goes against our very fiber. We feel compelled to do something.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#11. It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#12. In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

Moshe Dayan