Castellina 1396 Quotes & Sayings

Remember those reserves I mentioned? Time to call them up. I pick up the phone and dial. A soothing greets me after the second ring. The perfect combination of strength and comfort, and I answer back. "Hi, Mom." You thought I was calling someone else, didn't you? Deep down - I'm a momma's boy. I'm man enough to admit it. 'And trust me, I'm not the only one. Explains a lot, doesn't it? That's the reason your boyfriend can't manage to get his socks or underwear actually in the hamper-because he grew up with mommy doing it for him. — Emma Chase

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless. — Saadi

It was a good story, that of yours," said Beorn, "but I like it still better now I am sure it is true." The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien

The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics. — James Clerk Maxwell

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying. — Steven Wright

Egoism of the ignorant stage (ignorance of the true self) is considered live egoism. It becomes lifeless after attaining knowledge of the Self. If one takes the side of this lifeless egoism that, "I am not like that"- it will become alive again. Lifeless egoism is to be disposed off; it is not to be protected. — Dada Bhagwan

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. — Imre Lakatos

There will always be dark characters, but her life is good; it is as she wishes it to be. — John O'Brien

I don't see men or women as my sexual objects. I keep myself out of that equation. — Steven Klein

Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later. — Lewis Thomas

Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art — Jean Sibelius

I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire. — Paul McCartney

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song. — Patrick Carney

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. — Peter Singer