Brandimarte 800 Quotes & Sayings

I don't look at myself in the mirror. I'll flash past a mirror in the morning to check how I'm dressed, that's it. — Elle Macpherson

In the world of journalism, the personal Web site ("blog") was hailed as the killer of the traditional media. In fact it has become hailed as the killer of the traditional media. In fact it has become something quite different. Far from replacing newspapers and magazines, the best blogs-and the best are very clever- have become guides to them, pointing to unusual sources and commenting on familiar ones. They have become mediators for the informed public. — Fareed Zakaria

and she and the mare set off after Safi. — Susan Dennard

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there. — Trudi Canavan

It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return. — John Mihaljevic

Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time - it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life in order to maximize their personal profit. — Noam Chomsky

The ... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium ... I say that chance enters into all branches of art: a chance word or phrase starts a new trend of thought in a writer, a chance sound may bring a new melody to a musician, a chance combination of lines, new composition to a painter ... Chance - which in reality is not chance - but being ready, attuned to one's surroundings - and grasp my opportunity ... — Edward Weston

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter. — Tommy Cooper

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood. — Claudia Cardinale

What you hear is not my voice.
I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop-and probably for a while after that-none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless. — Chris Abani