Bagherzadeh Quotes & Sayings

[What a great way to describe how a city takes its unique "shape"...beautiful turn-of-phrase by Kieran Shields(!)]:

"It was a city of slopes, curves, and dips carved by glaciers and now criss-crossed by a network of angled streets and blocks, unfettered by any sense of regularity and uniformity. Portland's maze of cobbled roads was the result of two and a half centuries of fisherman and merchants driven by immediate necessity and that economy of steps that occurs naturally in a place where winters often lasted five months out of the year. — Kieran Shields

He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it. — Jim Bouton

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia. — Haile Gebrselassie

You are the only person who has ever made my heart race like this. — Teresa Mummert

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future. — Thomas Traherne

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny — Socrates

I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before. -Gabriel Allon — Daniel Silva

An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. — Michelangelo

The beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity. — Umberto Eco

You're probably right; he probably needs medication. That's all. — Triple H