Aitziber Coello Quotes & Sayings

How would anyone believe that any good was to be obtained by adding the Balkan states to the already unwieldy Dual Monarchy and so increasing the Empire to a hundred million souls with differing cultures and traditions? Of course armies could be recruited and young men could die, but great States evolved only through centuries of social tradition and mutual self-interest; they were not imposed by bayonets. To believe the contrary would be as mad as the folly which had put the Archduke Maximilian on the throne of Mexico. — Miklos Banffy

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts. — Bobby Fischer

For the first time in his life, he was going to be a goddamn hero. — Kristin Hannah

I've always been very inspired by people who can make their instrument sound very natural. — Michala Petri

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received. — Lea Thompson

What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures ( ... ) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation. — George Scialabba

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot