Armentia Ikastola Quotes & Sayings

Cave basilischium! The rex of serpenti, tant pleno of poison that it all shines dehors! Che dicam, il veleno, even the stink comes dehors and kills you! Poisons you ... And it has black spots on his back, and a head like a coq, and half goes erect over the terra, and half on the terra like the other serpents. And it kills the bellula ... '
'The bellula?'
'Oc! Parvissimum animal, just a bit plus longue than the rat, and also called the musk-rat. And so the serpe and the botta. And when they bite it, the bellula runs to the fenicula or to the cicerbita and chews it, and comes back to the battaglia. And they say it generates through the oculi, but most say they are wrong.'
I asked him what he was doing with a basilisk and he said that was his business. — Umberto Eco

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual. — Alexander Herzen

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer. — Ben Kingsley

If you want to understand poetry,
You have to go to its origin,
If you want to understand the poet,
You have to go to the Poet's home. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture. — Jet Li

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time. — Andrew Vachss

Apparently I'm not the only one - we've been hearing that some consumers actually started lining up outside stores days ago in anticipation of the new Nautilus. A few analysts are projecting more than seven or eight million sales in the first week alone. — Alena Graedon

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. — Ira Glass

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans. — Ron Lewis

Your plan isn't going to work."
He was all innocence. "I have a plan?"
"Oh, please," she scoffed. "You're going to try to wear me down in hopes that eventually I'll give in."
"I would never dream of it."
"I'm sure you dream of quite a bit more," she muttered.
-Sophie & Benedict — Julia Quinn

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. — Ralph Bakshi

You need the patience of a mountain to become truly enlightened. — Lamees Alhassar

Maybe they were onto something in Six. Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. Seemed happier than the rest of us, anyway. — Suzanne Collins

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science. — Bertrand Russell

I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but when you think that honesty and truth is really your best weapon you embrace it and put it behind you. In the end, it drives you and motivates you to do good work. No one should be ashamed about where they come from as long as you desire to be a compassionate and decent person. — George Lopez