Quassatum Quotes

#1. When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
[Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]

Lucretius

#2. I don't know how in the fuck we got here, but somehow this game is more real than anything else.
And I want it.
I fucking want it.

Nyrae Dawn

#3. There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Carol Leifer

#4. Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Lawrence J. Peters

#5. There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Jerzy Kosinski

#6. Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

Richard Baxter

#7. There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

Sarah Ruhl

#8. One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

#9. I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

Jonathan Ames

#10. You are so bloody frustrating!" he roared, back fisting another rabid with the axhead. "Do you really think the cure is worth this? You think I'd be here now if that's all I wanted?

Julie Kagawa

#11. I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Tony Kushner

#12. If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

Mike Huckabee

#13. Bureaucracies are a strange beast whose only goal is obesity.

Tim Heaton

#14. In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.

Howard Zinn

#15. 'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking.

Kelsey Chow

#16. Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

Earl Campbell