Bacalao A La Quotes & Sayings

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them. — E. O. Wilson

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. — Kurt Loder

Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances ... Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves ... Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows ... — Yukiru Sugisaki

I like to think of myself as a regular guy, except I play football for a living. I try not to be an arrogant turd out there. — Brian Urlacher

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many. — Carson McCullers

We were right to come here, if only because the ocean reminded you that impossible things were possible. Miles and miles of the deepest waters that moved like clockwork were possible. Creatures like jellyfish and sea urchins were, too. Millions and jillions of the tiniest grains of sand to form one long, soft beach - yep, even that was possible. — Deb Caletti

much since the labor was free. It's not going to win any architectural — Ray Gorham

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts. — Jo Walton

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. — Pauline Kael

Please let me find a way to stay here. Please let me find it before the sun comes up. — H.R. Willaston

We already know that social security is more affordable in Scotland than it is in the rest of the U.K. - spending on social protection takes up a smaller share of our economic output and our tax revenues than is the case in the U.K. as a whole. — Nicola Sturgeon

Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man. — Theocritus

We can not run away from our youth. We have to put them in the lead — Michel Sidibe

No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. — Max Weber