Top 100 Serge Quotes
#1. I smell panic," said Serge. "These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.
Tim Dorsey
#2. Yes Serge has killed a lot of people , but let's not overlook all of his other accomplishments.
Tim Dorsey
#3. Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.
Tim Dorsey
#4. Serge bowed his own head and closed his eyes God, please protect us from your followers. Amen
Tim Dorsey
#5. I always think of you, truly
I will forever think of you.
- Serge Van Duijnhoven, from With A Sleeping Body
Serge Van Duijnhoven
#6. I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.
Gia Coppola
#7. Impossible' isn't in my vocabulary, said Serge.
Tim Dorsey
#8. What do they mean 'serial killers'! said Serge. (person 1), okay. But (person 2) was self-defence and the (person 3)-I mean, that was the World Series! You can call me a murderer, fair is fair, but as soon as you put 'serial' in front of it, everyone automatically thinks your crazy.
Tim Dorsey
#9. I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.
Erich Fromm
#10. The common good," said Serge. "It's not hip.
Tim Dorsey
#11. It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.
Ernest Hemingway,
#12. His five feet three rested angular on the folding chair, a body small, well-wrought and somehow precious, as if it were the forgotten creation of any goldsmith - even Cellini - shrouded now in dark serge and waiting to be put up for auction.
Thomas Pynchon
#13. Serge nodded. 'And I respect your opinion because you smoke marijuana. You're chemically biased against violence and job applications.
Tim Dorsey
#14. Inherently, Larry & Serge aren't paper-oriented - they're product oriented. If they have another 10 minutes, they want to make something better. They don't want to take 10 minutes to tell you something they did.
- Terry Winograd
Steven Levy
#15. I love conversations!" "Why?" "Because we're all crazy!" said Serge. "And that's how society makes progress: imaginations getting together and glancing off each other in accidental tangents of invention.
Tim Dorsey
#16. This was the beginning of Tampa," said Serge. "They built Fort Brooke here in 1823.
Tim Dorsey
#17. The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.
Ezra Taft Benson
#18. I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.
Stephanie Szostak
#19. Do you think heaven's like that?
Could be worse, said Serge. You know all those pushy people who keep telling us we're not going to heaven? It could be full of them instead.
Tim Dorsey
#20. Florida is a theme park," said Serge. "And the theme is weirdness.
Tim Dorsey
#21. The pair sat relaxed and stared toward U.S. 1 at nothing in particular. Coleman rested his joint on the edge of the window and popped a beer. "This is the life." "You said it, buddy." Serge uncapped a bottle of water. "Florida, a full tank of gas, and no appointments.
Tim Dorsey
#22. Remember the key to life," Serge shouted over the engine. "Always act like you deserve to be here.
Tim Dorsey
#23. Use what you have in your gym. Try to do my training program, you will lose your fat and gain muscles at the same time.
Serge Nubret
#24. What is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..
Victor Serge
#25. Almighty Father, please stop making jerks. Amen...Break!
Tim Dorsey
#26. He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.
Victor Serge
#27. I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.
Serge Lang
#28. Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.
Victor Serge
#29. It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God.
Serge Kahili King
#30. Luck Doesn't exist, only hard (work) works
Serge Nubret
#31. Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
Serge Schmemann
#32. Definitely read a quality daily paper regularly, and use the Internet to check out the press around the world as often as you can.
Serge Schmemann
#33. The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
Serge Schmemann
#34. I love to be sore and when I feel sore I train even harder.
Serge Nubret
#35. Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
Serge Lang
#36. The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.
Serge Lang
#37. Eat a lot and train hard, I am sure that you will succeed.
Serge Nubret
#38. To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.
Serge Lang
#39. Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.
Serge Schmemann
#40. [T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the question of whether an experience is real or not makes no sense, because the answer is yes and no, depending on your point of view.
Serge King
#41. There's stars, superstars, and then there's Bobby Orr.
Serge Savard
#42. Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.
Serge Daney
#43. I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
Victor Serge
#44. There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
Serge Lang
#45. Carl Lewis wasn't a great sprinter. He could only run fast for like 9 seconds.
Serge Ibaka
#46. What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
Serge Schmemann
#47. Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.
Serge Lutens
#48. Of course, there are diseases of which people die.
Serge Lang
#49. My training was based on concentration, and it's impossible to cheat when you are concentrated
Serge Nubret
#50. That, and the untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. Fuck Ohio.
Tim Dorsey
#52. Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.
Serge Schmemann
#53. Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
Serge Schmemann
#54. In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
Serge Daney
#55. Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on.
Serge Nubret
#56. A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.
Serge Daney
#57. We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.
Serge King
#58. The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.
Serge Lang
#59. Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
Serge Schmemann
#60. Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.
Serge Lang
#61. We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples for decades, and all the slamming doors, breaking glass and squealing tires you hear in movies are sound effects.
Serge Schmemann
#62. Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
Serge Schmemann
#63. The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
Serge Daney
#64. I am passionate about making sure that we collectively and proactively preserve all of the world's most iconic coastal and oceanic wild places - those keystone ecosystems that are irreplaceable, breathtakingly beautiful refuges for fish and other marine wildlife.
Serge Dedina
#65. I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
Serge Lang
#66. If you don't like don't do it. But don't forget that: NO PAIN NO GAIN.
Serge Nubret
#67. Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.
Serge Schmemann
#68. If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.
Serge Lang
#69. Yes it is better to keep training even if your muscle is still sore.
Serge Nubret
#70. I freely will the best choice, thus willing the same will
Serge Jerkezian
#72. Makes sense," the young woman remarked. "Down here you live life to the fullest, while up there your life is empty, worthless. You need a lot of real time to buy just a minute of dreams.
Serge Brussolo
#73. Perfect form is the most important thing to have a perfect body, it's impossible to make a painting with a big brush
Serge Nubret
#74. Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass ceremonies, they will participate in any kind of sexual orgy, some to be kept as sexual slaves.
Serge Monast
#75. You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience.
Serge King
#76. If everything is energy, which it is - then everything is because of energy.
Serge Benhayon
#77. The Godfather has, maybe, one good scene.
Serge Ibaka
#78. Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind buying a BMW recording and installing it in my '96 Jeep Cherokee.
Serge Schmemann
#79. Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.
Serge Daney
#80. A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.
Serge Schmemann
#82. Bodybuilding is not only a sport but first an ART.
Serge Nubret
#83. Ideas run wild without discussion.
Serge King
#84. I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we're not supposed to be any good.
Serge Schmemann
#85. According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch
an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still like us.
Serge Daney
#86. The world belongs to those who can describe it.
Serge Bramly
#87. The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.
Serge Schmemann
#89. In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.
Serge Schmemann
#90. They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.
Serge Lang
#91. Trust me when you love something you don't need motivation.
Serge Nubret
#93. The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.
Serge Daney
#94. Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.
Serge Ibaka
#95. Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.
Serge Lang
#96. A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.
Serge Nubret
#97. Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.
Serge Lang
#98. Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.
Serge Schmemann
#99. To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note.
Serge Lutens
#100. What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.
Serge Lang
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