Pierros Cream Quotes

#1. An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Juvenal

#2. Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

Herman Melville

#3. ... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Clive Barker

#4. All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#5. What is the difference between happiness and contentment?"
"Well, happy is like when somebody gives you a big hunk of something wonderful and it's too big to hold. So you pull off a piece from time to time to hold in your hand. that's being contented. anyway, that's the way i look at it.

Betty Smith

#6. It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.

Nicolle Wallace

#7. The goal of peace is always inviting wide open.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#8. If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

John Stuart Mill

#9. By precluding meaningful communication it fosters misunderstanding on both sides."
(Freedom Rider Diary: Smuggled Notes from Parchman Prison, p. 49)

Carol Ruth Silver

#10. Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Bernie Mac

#11. As an old man who remembers the intellectual exhilaration and the pleasure of having done good work that characterized the CIA when it was young, I wonder if it might not be better to speak and think in terms of restoring its culture.

Charles McCarry

#12. I believe in unlimited possibilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.

Kristen Stewart

#15. It is in the tiny struggles of individual peoples that the great movements of history are most truly revealed.

Rosa Luxemburg