Baldones Quotes & Sayings

The great creative individual ... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. — John Stuart Mill

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. — Chris Abani

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks. — Murray Rothbard

I wouldn't be with a man who was scared of me, but I don't think men are scared of me - look at me, I'm tiny. I don't think I'm capable of putting anyone off. I'm a nice girl. — Amy Winehouse

People get jaded in every profession, but for some reason, I feel as passionate as when I was 13 years old and just released my first album. I feel the same amount of adrenaline in my blood, and the same amount of curiosity as well. Curiosity about why I'm different. — Shakira

Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess — Bram Stoker

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. — Niels Bohr

It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back. — Hester Browne

Quite apart from anything else, the rule of money sees to it that we shall be governed largely by the old - that is, by people utterly unable to grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting. — George Orwell

Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love. — Ninon De L'Enclos