Bedrich Smetana Cesky Quotes & Sayings

The ladies' fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view. — Frances Hardinge

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them. — Yehuda Berg

I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs. — LIZ

He must be always on his guard and devote every minute and module of life to the decoding of the undulation of things. The very air he exhales is indexed and filed away. If only the interest he provokes were limited to his immediate surroundings, but, alas, it is not! With distance, the torrents of wild scandal increase in volume and volubility. The silhouettes of his blood corpuscles, magnified a million times, flit over vast plains; and still farther away, great mountains of unbearable solidity and height sum up, in terms of granite and groaning firs, the ultimate truth of his being. — Vladimir Nabokov

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate. — Edmund Hillary

Real love's beautiful, elusive, and mean as a snake. — J.D. Robb

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them. — Victoria Abril