Branislav Nusic Quotes & Sayings

Wealth, status, and power have become in our culture all too powerful symbols of happiness ... And we assume that if only we could acquire some of those same symbols, we would be nuch happier. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us - the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us. — Ehud Barak

I wouldn't like to meet her again," Jeff said, "and not in a dark alley." He'd need to be tougher than he ever could be, and it wasn't just this one old lady, it was most people in the world. Jeff felt as if he'd been keeping a secret from himself and had come around a dark inner corner to rediscover it. He felt shaky, but as if he'd learned something. Probably it was good for him. He thought it was. It wasn't good for him to get confident; just like he'd been confident about Melody. It was when you got confident you got taken by surprise and really banged around. — Cynthia Voigt

First love is dangerous only when it is also the last. — Branislav Nusic

They can buy talent. You can't buy it for yourself, but you can buy other people's talent to serve your purposes. And once an artist does that, he becomes like a plaything of the rich. — Robert Crumb

To Wordsworth nature was the nurse; to us, it's the patient. — Robert Hillman

The future is a convenient place for dreams. — Anatole France

When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz. — Pixie Lott

You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past. — Kami Garcia

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict. — Peter Breggin

We need to get out of the way of the small business owner - and big business owners - and allow them to do what government can only dream of doing: creating jobs and thereby creating wealth. — Diane Hendricks

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more. — Lester Bowie

We grow small trying to be great. — E. Stanley Jones