327 quotes found
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our li...”
“Because I always feel like runningNot away, because there is no such placeBecause if there was, I would have found it by nowBecause it's easier to run,Easier than staying and finding out you're the...”
“The paths carved by the divine carpenter into her palms are actually treasure maps showing the way to heaven.”
“if you want it really, you get it !!!”
“I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the ...”
“Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by '82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the space on the left of the entrance was to be the games room. Until two wee...”
“Honouring the youth of their town they provided a dcor that a 20-a-Martini fleecing parlour could not have amortized. They had bought eighty low Alvar Aalto stools for the alcove and coctail bar se...”
“Rock It, Read It.”
“Find It, Live It, Love It.”
“Imagine America as one house on a suburban lane. Years before he became a Jehovah's Witness, Prince knocked on America's door through his music. He came to the door holding a guitar and an umbrella...”
“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the troubl...”
“If just one person has done it, it can be done. by V.L. Marshall”
“People are complicated, she said. Didnt they teach you that in biography school?”
“The war was all that mattered to Hitler. Yet, cocooned in the strange world of the Wolf's Lair, he was increasingly severed from its realities, both at the front and at home. Detachment ruled out a...”
“What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to...”
“Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till hes shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, theres the test.”
“She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you. With those two things, you can go anywhere and everywhere.”
“I regret that I didnt realize that actually theyve got no power over you at school its all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge ...”
“Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking obscurely; perhaps he is claiming too much; perhaps she is speaking rather too perso...”
“Speculation was now news. News had been confused with fact. Fact had been replaced by expert opinion. People had been replaced by their biographies. Ability had been replaced by disability. Thinkin...”