"Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life."

-- Karin Slaughter

#Horrible Quotes

“The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense end knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.”
“To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ...”
“Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.”
“There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.”
“Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.”
“Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?”
“Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.59, Penguin
“You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.”

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