Alrich Gray Quotes & Sayings

Now, let's imagine that we have been condemned for life to making, year in year out a burdensome and nearly impossible decision to which the world increasingly and inexplicably ascribes a crazy importance. How do we go about it? We look for some simple, rapid, and broadly acceptable criteria that will help us get this pain out of the way. And since, as Borges himself noted, aesthetics are difficult and require a special sensibility and long reflection while political affiliations are easier and quickly grasped, we begin to identify those areas of the world that have grabbed public attention, perhaps because of political turmoil or abuses of human rights; we find those authors who have already won a huge level of respect and possibly major prizes in the literary communities of these countries and who are outspokenly committed to the right side of whatever political divide we're talking about, and we select them. — Tim Parks

For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs. — Judge Reinhold

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius. — Eric Weiner

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. — Francis Bacon

The Ticket-wallah, whose pimples bubbled as I watched, was as intractably dense as his counterpart in King's Cross. The Corporation breeds them from the same stem cell. — David Mitchell

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men. — Ivica Dacic

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. — Harry S. Truman

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles. — Robert Kagan

Never spit in a lion's face when you've got your hand in his mouth. — A.G. Gaston

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents. — Marilyn Monroe

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul. — Muhammad

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst