Slavi Show Quotes

#1. The past, hey no shit, it's an open invitation to wine abuse.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. In the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no sense.

Paul Auster

#3. The strongest feelings I experienced were in Davis Cup. It was the most powerful thing: the victories and the losses. It hits you in a distinct way. It's another level of satisfaction - another level of sadness.

David Nalbandian

#4. Knowledge is Power, and it's very lightweight.

Cody Lundin

#5. Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun."
"What?" I [Percy] asked.
"They're sacred to Apollo."
"Holy cows?

Rick Riordan

#6. He doesn't agree with the conventional wisdom that says, "The world changed on September 11." Hauerwas says, "No, the world changed in 33 A.D. The question is how to narrate what happened on September 11 in light of what happened in 33 A.D.

Jim Wallis

#7. If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#8. The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.

Billy Collins

#9. Education stimulates self-study.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

Leslie Jamison

#11. Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton.

Erich Fromm

#12. What test?" Asked Nudge.
"Max, you're incorruptible."
"Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.

James Patterson

#13. The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Euripides