Capretti Salon Quotes & Sayings

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes. — Bernie S. Siegel

Life can be driven by two things - fear or passion. When we are driven by passion, our fear takes the backseat and enjoys the ride. When we are driven by fear, there is no ride. — Talia

Chicks before dicks.
Hos before Bros.
Moms before Doms. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you. — James Cromwell

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface. — George Julius Poulett Scrope

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. — Gilbert C. Remillard

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit. — Peter Thiel

Memories are all the same at their core; it's just us trying to keep each other alive, the best parts anyway. — Caroline Kepnes

Then I stood alone at the edge of the sea I had longed for so often; but though I was alone, I found it cheering, and breathed the air that is like no other, and smiled to hear the soft song of the little waves. Land - Nessus, the House Absolute, and all the rest - lay to the east; west lay the sea; I walked north because I was reluctant to leave it too soon, and because Triskele had run in that direction, along the margin of the sea. There great Abaia might wallow with his women, yet the sea was older far, and wiser than he; we human beings, like all the life of the land, had come from the sea; and because we could not conquer it, it was ours always. The old, red sun rose on my right and touched the waves with his fading beauty, and I heard the calling of the sea birds, the innumerable birds. — Gene Wolfe

An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. — Nikola Tesla

What we have not has made us what we are.
Those surface consolations have to go. — May Sarton

Poetry in the dark of the night you are my torch.
Poetry makes you believe in the freedom in your own home.
Poetry causes the increase of the human race.
Poetry ennobles the spirit of man.
Poetry is like a noble fragrance that caresses your soul.
Poetry is the royal essence of beauty. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I'm nothing more than a talking urinal cake. The world is pissing on me. — Donald O'Donovan

If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge to corporations, we will have neither access nor preservation. — Barbara Fister

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score. — Alexander Pope