Asadullina Quotes & Sayings

One of the parrots was very friendly with ... Master of the Robes. He used to feed it nuts. As it nibbled from his fingers, he used to stroke its head, at which the bird appeared to enter a state of ecstasy. I very much wanted this kind of friendliness and several times tried to get a similar response, but to no avail. So I took a stick to punish it. Of course, thereafter it fled at the sight of me. This was a very good lesson in how to make friends: not by force but by compassion. — Dalai Lama XIV

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end. — Bill Kurtis

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is. — Mario Monicelli

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission. — Michael A. Ledeen

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me. — Gabriel Iglesias

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta. — Naomi Campbell

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations. — Niall Ferguson

They had all the means to develop a spinning machine, but "nobody tried" - another example of knowledge hampering optionality. They probably needed someone like Steve Jobs - blessed with an absence of college education and the right aggressiveness of temperament - to take the elements to their natural conclusion. As we will see in the next section, it is precisely this type of uninhibited doer who made the Industrial Revolution happen. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wherever you stop, you will stay there. Don't expect the ground beneath you to move forward! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Well, you know that old saying, "Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies. — Shae Ross