Vampire Squid Quotes

#1. The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Matt Taibbi

#2. The cast of 'Zoey 101' are like a family to me.

Paul Butcher

#3. Wow, you survived a blackout. You're made of stronger stuff than ice cream.

Lewis Black

#4. When I was your age, I would go to plays all the time, just sit in the darkness and try to take it all in inside me. Contain everything in some corner of my heart so that when I had my shot, it could all come pouring out - all the lights and moments and colour.

Brenna Ehrlich

#5. All incoming bits of information have, simultaneously, a tentacular, optic, and sexual dimension. Its world is not doubtful, but surprising; vampyroteuthic thinking is an unbroken stream of Aristotelian shock.

Vilem Flusser

#6. If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

Sylvester Stallone

#7. J.W. and Roy didn't just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.

Bernice L. McFadden

#8. We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

Rodrigo Rato

#9. Kidnapped by a vampire, death by a squid. How tragic.

Abigail Gibbs

#10. After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.

Frank Gaffney

#11. The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Henri Bergson

#12. If I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought to be, my thesis would be simply this: A good life is one that has managed to turn anxiety into hope, and fear into success. And that is what I call total virtue.

Mohammed Naseehu Ali

#13. There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

Max Baucus

#14. Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#15. Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

Selena

#16. Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more importantly, to change it. Such is the impulse behind our conversation with the vampryoteuthis

Vilem Flusser

#17. We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.

Theodore Dreiser