Bulanova Wiki Quotes & Sayings

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi

There's no getting blood out of a turnip. — Frederick Marryat

There was something pitiful about a woman in jail. I had found that almost all of the time, their crimes could be traced back to men. Men who took advantage of them, abused them, deserted them, hurt them. This is not to say they were not responsible for their actions or that some of them did not deserve the punishments they received. There were predators among the female ranks that easily rivaled those among the males. But, even still, the women I saw in jail seemed so different from the men in the other tower. The men still lived by wiles and strength. The women had nothing left by the time they locked the door on them. — Michael Connelly

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism. — John Patrick Shanley

There are some beliefs and places in this city that are incomprehensible to some-hell-to most, and it's best to leave them alone. — Sandy DeLuca

Because sometimes not liking someone is easier. — Ally Carter

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species ... and to disperse the families I have an aversion. — George Washington

Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. — Saul Alinsky

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things. — Edward Steichen

St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good. — Alphonsus Liguori

Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands. — Scott Weiland