Altotonga Quotes & Sayings

We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out — Charles Fort

Tragedy is an imitation not just of a complete action, but of events that evoke pity and fear. — Aristotle.

I want to do stories that inspire people. — Naturi Naughton

Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys. — Ramona Koval

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it. — Pierre Beaumarchais

I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted,
and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer. — Ariel Schrag

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life. — Catherine Deneuve

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable. — Hippocrates

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. — Arianna Huffington

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them. — Ellen Langer

In Friendster's wake, a throng of social networking sites blossomed in San Francisco attempting to duplicate its appeal. Each tackled the idea of connecting people in a slightly different way. One was Tickle, a service which, on observing Friendster's broad-based appeal, altered its own service, which had previously been based on self-administered quizzes and tests. Two of the other new social sites - LinkedIn and Tribe - were founded by friends of Abrams. — David Kirkpatrick

If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored. — Ryan Sheckler

Though often used interchangeably, the concept of freedom of speech and the First Amendment are not the same thing. While the First Amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press as they relate to duties of the state and state power, freedom of speech is a far broader idea that includes additional cultural values. These values incorporate healthy intellectual habits, such as giving the other side a fair hearing, reserving judgment, tolerating opinions that offend or anger us, believing that everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, and recognizing that even people whose points of view we find repugnant might be (at least partially) right. — Greg Lukianoff