Alonso Alvarez De Pineda Quotes & Sayings

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong. — Drew Houston

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

My Teacher Sees Right Through Me
I didn't do my homework.
My teacher asked me, "Why?"
I answered him, "It's much too hard."
He said, "You didn't try."
I told him, "My dog ate it."
He said, "You have no dog."
I said, "I went out running."
He said, "You never jog."
I told him, "I had chores to do."
He said, "You watched TV."
I said, "I saw the doctor."
He said, "You were with me."
My teacher sees right through my fibs,
which makes me very sad.
It's hard to fool the teacher
when the teacher is your dad. — Bruce Lansky

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there. — Jonathan Raban

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with. — Paddy Considine

You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute. — Paul Mooney

I remember kisses," said Slightly. "Let me see. Aye, that is a kiss. A powerful thing. — J.M. Barrie

...I was shut up inside that doll of myself, and my true voice could not get out. — Margaret Atwood

If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists. — Friedrich Hayek

I love to eat everything and you pretty much can - a little piece of something fattening is not going to kill you. It's when you eat the whole box that it's going to kill you. — Jennifer Lopez

There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no prose at all. He knew. — Graham Greene

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet. — George Mikes