Usredsredjen Quotes

#1. I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

Henry Flynt

#2. The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

Henry Ford

#3. How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?

Henrique Capriles Radonski

#4. There's always a parade, Howie. When it's something you can't ever join but only watch, then it's a parade

Dean Koontz

#5. All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Oscar W. Firkins

#6. Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together.

David Lynch

#7. (For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)

Christopher Moore

#8. Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Greg Bear

#9. I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

Raekwon

#10. There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.

Will Rogers

#11. Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

Franklin Foer

#12. No, indeed!" she cried, all indignation. "I have no notion of asking people to perform services for me which I can do perfectly well for myself. I do not intend to go, in the space of one hour, from the helplessness of enchantment to another sort of helplessness!" pg. 761

Susanna Clarke

#13. Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. I was just past forty, that age when you wake up in the morning and feel something thickening inside and only people too old to matter refer to you as a young man anymore. (The Last Days of Il Duce)

Dominic Stansberry

#15. I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

Marjane Satrapi