Armands Quotes & Sayings

Had the Battle of Franklin ever really ended? Carrie walked her cemetery, and around her the wounds closed up and scarred over, but only in that way that an oak struck by lightning heals itself by twisting and bending around the wound: it is still recognizably a tree, it still lives as a tree, it still puts out its leaves and acorns, but its center, hidden deep within the curtain of green, remains empty and splintered where it hasn't been grotesquely scarred over. We are happy the tree hasn't died, and from the proper angle we can look on it and suppose that it is the same tree as it ever was, but it is not and never will be. — Robert Hicks

Powerful people affect many others and if I can in some way contribute to their awareness, they will put out better energy to millions and millions of people. — Frederick Lenz

Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. — Aldous Huxley

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script. — Dick Van Dyke

It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around. — Timothy Simons

Lick hand. Sprinkle salt. Do the shot. Suck the lemon. — Gemma Burgess

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. — Muriel Rukeyser

This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority-African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. — Ray Nagin

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient. — Lucretius

You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this. — Taylor Swift

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me. — Benedict Cumberbatch