Pinioned Ducks Quotes

#1. People were the same everywhere, no matter what lofty vows they proclaimed. Help was given only in the hope of its being reciprocated. Expectations of reward lurked behind every act of altruism.

Steven Erikson

#2. I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

Lauryn Hill

#3. [When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

Hermione Gingold

#4. To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... that's how I write the horror. It's very complicated.

Deyth Banger

#5. I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

William Joyce

#6. You should not separate your life from what you do.

Jeanne Moreau

#7. The website increases my excitement when I read, "Hark, the pies are calling!" My excitement is short-lived, however. I read the page again and realize that it is "pipes" that are calling, not "pies" as I had hoped. I am disappointed. I personally react better to the call of pies.

Aefa Mulholland

#8. Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

John Cleese

#9. When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

Lori Lansens