The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935
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The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BC