Barocco Granite Quotes & Sayings

No matter what corruption he's taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which he cannot perform for any motive but his own enjoyment - just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity?-an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces him to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and to accept his real ego as his standard of value. — Ayn Rand

And it's nagging at you, but you can't quite put your finger on it? It's like that, all the time. Just this feeling of wrongness. Like the world doesn't make sense any more without him in it.' A — Emma Kavanagh

And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the Phaedon instead of Bowditch in his head. Beware of such an one, I say: your whales must be seen before they can be killed ... — Herman Melville

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster. — Michael Owen

I have a tattoo that I got in Memphis, and another I got in Dayton. — Colin Donnell

Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form. — George W. Bush

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world. — Dizzy Dean