Bijelo Dugme Quotes & Sayings

She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the ill. When she found that the theosophy she had developed for communication with a dead husband was not necessary, she cast about for some new unhappiness. — John Steinbeck

I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid. — Ashley Poston

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction. — Cate Blanchett

If we were truly created by God, then why do we still occasionally bite the insides of our own mouths? — Dara O Briain

But only at Antquarium did I feel a sense of what the library at Alexandria might have been: an accumulation of evidence and suggestions. — Amy Halloran

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.' — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

The way to a woman's heart might best be reached via a short cut. — Dixie Waters

The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds. — Ken Auletta

There will be no peace until the violence is done. Peace is inaccessible without the violence, because violence is righteousness in action. — Adam Nicolson

True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius? — Stephen Jay Gould

A Book in the hand is worth two in the bush. — A.J. DeJong

He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He forebode to look at her. It gave him a grim, horrible, and rather uncanny sensation to think that a vivid, lacerating life could go on when one sunk in unconsciousness, a life so real that it could cause tears to stream down the face and twist the mouth in woe, and yet when the sleeper woke left no recollection behind. — W. Somerset Maugham

You need to have confidence in your people, and enough self-confidence to let them identify a better way. — Eric Schmidt

He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base. — Jhumpa Lahiri