Andras Arato Quotes & Sayings

I'm not perfect, and I'd like to pretend you aren't, either. — Aly Martinez

I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me. — Priyanka Chopra

And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was happening outside? When I saw an external object, my awareness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, lining it with a thin spiritual border that prevented me from ever directly touching its substance; it would volatize in some way before I could make contact with it, just as an incandescent body brought near a wet object never touches its moisture because it is always preceded by a zone of evaporation. — Marcel Proust

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. — William F. Buckley Jr.

People die, but money never does. — Penelope Lively

Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years. — Arnold McCuller

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. — Elizabeth Gaskell

One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb

It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally. — John Cho

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics. — William Dwight Whitney

Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface. — Anthony Doerr

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies. — David Suzuki