Calin Rovinescu Quotes & Sayings

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death. — Miguel De Cervantes

If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at those who had it and didn't use it. — T.C. Slonaker

Quite honestly, most of us don't live in a world with perfect loam. — Mark Whitelaw

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief. — Charles Olson

Karlheinz Stockhausen to journalist: "I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work "Song of the Youth," which is electronic music, and a young boy's voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it [was] varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations."

Aphex Twin to journalist: "I thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: 'Didgeridoo,' then he'd stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to". — Karlheinz Stockhausen

Those things we stuff, try so hard to ignore, they are the very things begging for release
the things that hold the promise of hope, the flame of freedom. — Jo Ann Fore

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children. — Lawrence O'Donnell

Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting. — Andy Borowitz

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust. — Stephen Covey

She used to be all right, Una, when we were kids. I liked that she wasn't fussed about her antlers. — Kirsty Logan

I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.' — Hope Solo

In the thirteenth century the Mongol armies perfected the art of the blitzkrieg with nothing more than shaggy ponies at their disposal. — Isaac Asimov

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety. — Clifton Fadiman

[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst out laughing. She wondered why there was something slightly absurd about aunts; perhaps it was because one thought of them as dear, comfortable creatures, somehow lacking in dignity and prestige. — Barbara Pym