Balossi Quotes & Sayings

The internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development. — Peter Dicken

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill. — Todd Phillips

I'll lick a leper's neck before I take a lung-full o' your stench, Brother Row. — Mark Lawrence

Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion. — Robert Silverberg

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens. — David Mitchell

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own ... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism. — James Gleick

No is the foundation that we can build our yes on. — Seth Godin

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate. — Sigrid Undset

Many a young wizard has tried to read a grimoire that is too strong for him, and people who've heard the screams have found only his pointy shoes with the classic wisp of smoke coming out of them and a book which is, perhaps, just a little fatter. — Terry Pratchett

Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future. — Bill Crawford

Let us use texts of Scripture as fuel for our heart's fire, they are live coals; let us attend sermons, but above all, let us be much alone with Jesus. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way clear to give me those things, instead she gave me a strong will. — Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Nose-hairs gone: runny nostrils. Constipation and diarrhea alternating — Christopher Hitchens

People should go see 'Premium' because it's a great story about love and the person who shaped us as the people we eventually become. There are a bunch of laughs as well as poignant thinking moments. It's a story about the human experience, and so many people can relate to it. Plus we need the money! — Dorian Missick

You can always have it better. If you try ... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better! — Alex Kapranos