Belisarius Series Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass. — Charles Bukowski

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right! — Orson Welles

No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless." "I — Zadie Smith

In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels. — Kate Millett

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely — John Denver

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence. — Dane Cook

Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy. — Emmitt Smith

used these personally. I would not recommend ordering off Amazon except as a last resort (ie. If you have a gift — Dustin Yarc

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about. — Larry Fitzgerald

I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage. — Rokia Traore

In the middle of the sixth century there was, however, a period when the Roman dominion was revived in the West-from the East. During Justinian's reign in Constantinople, his generals reconquered Africa, Italy, and southern Spain. That achievement, associated mainly with the name of Belisarius, is the more remarkable because of two features-first, the extraordinarily slender resources with which Belisarius undertook these far-reaching campaigns; second, his consistent use of the tactical defensive. There is no parallel in history for such a series of conquests by abstention from attack. They are the more remarkable since they were carried out by an army that was based on the mobile arm-and mainly compose of cavalry. Belisarius had no lack of audacity, but his tactics were to allow-or tempt-the other side to do the attacking. IF that choice was, in part, imposed on him by his numerical weakness, it was also a matter of subtle calculation, both tactical and psychological. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Bubba said something about Willowdean having a stalker," Miz Demetrice said.
"A stalker?" Aunt Caressa repeated as if she was unfamiliar with the word.
"You know, someone who follows you around, sends you cards, dead flowers, and turns up unwanted," Miz Demetrice said.
"Oh, you mean kind of like a Republican," Aunt Caressa Concluded. — C.L. Bevill

Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons? — Steven Wright