Babak Parviz Quotes & Sayings

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression? — Ben Bernanke

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything. — Nicolas Roeg

Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy. — Paolo Di Canio

For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it. — Michael Douglas

Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend's, had switched across her and lay there burning the covers. And when she turned shrieking, to see what manner of thing lay beside her in the bed, she was at first reassured by sight of her husband's face, then saw, to her horror, that horns had risen, black and pointed, from his forehead. After that she screamed again and remembered nothing until Joseph was shaking her awake, and there were neither horns nor tail to be seen. Nor were the bedclothes scorched. — Evangeline Walton

A measure of narcissism is healthy. But out of balance, what was once appropriate self-confidence becomes grandiose, pathological, and destructive. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. — Harold Rosenberg

Weariness of Men

My grandmother said when she was young
The grass was so wild and high
You couldn't see a man on horseback.

In the fields she made out
Three barns,
Dark and blown down from the weather
Like her husbands.

She remembers them in the dark,
Cursing the beasts,
And how they would leave the bed
In the morning,
The dead grass of their eyes
Stacked against her. — Frank Stanford

If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly. — Kathleen Tessaro

Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world? — Miguel Syjuco