Tranquilliser Quotes

#1. The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#2. In show business, never underestimate the power of saying "no".

Doc Brown

#3. The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.

Suzette Haden Elgin

#4. Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

H.G.Wells

#5. Somebody always wants something from me," she said in a near whisper. "They're eating me alive.

Ayana Mathis

#6. Were the "pampas," perhaps, flatter than the land they were crossing? He doubted it; what could be flatter than a horizontal plane?

Cesar Aira

#7. If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

Priyanka Chopra

#8. You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.

Allen Ginsberg

#9. There is no God but Fact, and Mr. Everhard is its prophet,

Jack London

#10. God wants to dance with us. The goal of dancing is NOT to learn the steps. The goal of dancing is to enjoy your partner. We learn the steps but only so we don't have to look down at our feet. We are free to look into the eyes of the one we love.

Nicole Johnson

#11. Tell the fucking story.

Aleksandar Hemon

#12. Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

John Wesley

#13. Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning
it was ultimately indigestible.

Hanif Kureishi

#14. Eighty percent of all cultures are the same, it is the 20% that make a culture unique and slam dunks the brand promise to the customer.

Curt Coffman

#15. Remember always to give. That is the thing that will make you grow ...

Elizabeth Taylor

#16. I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski