Pretensions Of Grandeur Quotes

#1. I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Alice Walker

#2. We were just not good enough to play by ourselves.

R.J. Palacio

#3. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

Burt Ward

#5. What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

Terence McKenna

#6. Even with some of the best action films like The Bourne Ultimatum, which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.

William Friedkin

#7. It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

Junot Diaz

#8. Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

H.L. Mencken

#9. As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

Gregg Allman

#10. Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

Honore De Balzac