Basconi Quotes & Sayings

It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making love unviable. If education alone cannot transform society, without it society cannot change either. — Paulo Freire

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way. — William Friedkin

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up. — Frederick Lenz

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters. — Mary-Louise Parker

One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things. — Gillian Flynn

To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate. — Willard Van Orman Quine

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. — Anais Nin

Gene and Claudia tried for a while to assist me with the Wife Problem. Unfortunately, their approach was based on the traditional dating paradigm, which I had previously abandoned on the basis that the probability of success did not justify the effort and negative experiences. I am thirty-nine years old, tall, fit and intelligent, with a relatively high status and above-average income as an associate professor. Logically, I should be attractive to a wide range of women. In the animal kingdom, I would succeed in reproducing. — Graeme Simsion

R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel. — Jan Burke

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. — Jim Rohn

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. — Jean Francois Revel

I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial. — Romany Malco

My dream: to be able to drive a virus-powered car. — Angela Belcher

More people live off cancer than die from it. — Deepak Chopra