Bankowski Oil Quotes & Sayings

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

At 25, you've got millions of brain cells to kill. — Bruce Willis

I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence. — Leonard Susskind

Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good. — Ippy Aiona

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be. — Chris Prentiss

Happiness is a rare cosmetic. — George Whyte-Melville

Words are alive
when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over.
Reading isn't passive
I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations,
scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them.
Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many. — Gary Paulsen

We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot like them. And who would they hate then? — Cristina Henriquez