Castrogiovannis Exotic Gems Quotes & Sayings

Cyril, church warden and lead tenor in the choir, lives with mother, banned from unsupervised contact with schoolchildren; Harold, drunk dentist, early retirement, pretty thatched cottage off the Bodmin road, one son in rehab, wife in the bin. — John Le Carre

In the end, being the writer on set is a bit like having organised a big party, but you're not allowed to eat or drink anything. You just have to stand in the corner. — John Niven

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. — Johan Huizinga

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. — Maya Lin

That is between me and my shadow. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The prevalence of social ugliness made commitment to physical beauty all the more essential. And the very presence in life of double-wide mobile homes, Magic Marker graffiti, and orange shag carpeting had the effect of making ills such as poverty, crime, repression, pollution and child abuse seem tolerable. In a sense, beauty was the ultimate protest, and, in that it generally lasted longer than an orgasm, the ultimate refuge. The Venus de Milo screamed "No!" at evil, whereas the Spandex stretch pant, the macrame plant holder were compliant with it. — Tom Robbins

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created. — Kim Weston

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true. — Roddy Doyle

One can only understand history and all of social life, including today's social life, if one pays attention to people's racial characteristics. And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin. — Rudolf Steiner

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough. — Banksy

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true. — Lewis H. Lapham

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true. — Dennis Rodman