"The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates"

-- Steven Erikson

#Games Quotes #Iron Quotes #Envy Quotes

“I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, 'Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!' And I said, 'It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell chai-ay-oh.' [Laughs.] Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.
“I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.”
“I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.”
“This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.”
“When the fighters are in the ring, they want to dictate the pace. I want to dominate, so I want to impose to the other fighter my actions.”
“I think it is about individuality so I don't have a sense to tell someone they need a makeover. One example I would give is Mariah Carey. She has been the same for so long but I bet she is thinking, "If it ain't broke then don't fix it." She is dated but I love Mariah for that.”
“Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.”
“If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations.”

Source : Georges Cuvier (Barón, (), Robert Jameson (1817). “Essay on the Theory of the Earth”, p.3

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