Zorinsky Aquatic Center Quotes

#1. A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Norman Mailer

#2. Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#3. [International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today.

Antonin Scalia

#4. We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say that success is a hideous thing. Its false similarity to merit deceives men.

Victor Hugo

#5. Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

Felix O. Hartmann

#6. In a serener Bright,
In a more golden light
I see
Each little doubt and fear,
each little discord here
Removed.

Emily Dickinson

#7. Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

Barry S. Strauss

#8. In Cookie's defense, it was raining wildcats and rabid dogs.

Darynda Jones

#9. What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves
our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?

Karen Marie Moning

#11. Paths. Curiosities lurked around every corner. A man belched flames from a podium. The scent of fried cakes and popcorn hung sweet and heavy on the air, tantalizing until it became sickening. And

Madeleine Roux

#12. I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth.

Jeet Aulakh

#13. Dorian Skotos became my savior in that moment, more so than he already was. And part of me - the Dark, ugly, abhorrent side - began to resent him for it.

S.L. Jennings