Obrva Selo Quotes

#1. A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Jose Bergamin

#2. HE who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. Far must thy researches go
Wouldst thou learn the world to know;
Thou must tempt the dark abyss
Wouldst thou prove what Being is;
Naught but firmness gains the prize,
Naught but fullness makes us wise,
Buried deep truth e'er lies.

Friedrich Schiller

#4. Please - please get up - and lower your voice - "
"Hell no."
"Why not?" I'm pleading now.
"Because if I lower my voice, I won't be able to hear myself speak. And that," he says, "is my favorite part.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. Another round later and I was undeniably drunk. I could feel my head swimming and was yelling "INK INK THAT'S THE NOISE A SQUID MAKES", while laughing hysterically at myself.

Holly Bourne

#6. Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that no one can disturb me, and without a censor looking over my shoulder to see what I am writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

Nana Mouskouri

#8. It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.

David Halberstam

#9. If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it yo me
I can see it
another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

Daniel Handler

#10. Fhat thouding do're.

Peter Watts