Cicorama Quotes & Sayings

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep. — Amy Poehler

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed. — John Pugsley

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of ... except self? — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike. — Gail Carriger

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it. — George Eliot

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that. — Jim Dale

My thoughts turn to something I read once, something the Zen Buddhists believe. They say that an oak tree is brought into creation by two forces at the same time. Obviously, there is the acorn from which it all begins, the seed which holds all the promise and potential, which grows into a tree. Everybody can see that. But only a few can recognize that there is anther force operating here as well-the future tree itself, which wants so badly to exist that it pulls the acorn into being, drawing the seedling forth with longing out of the void, guiding the evolution from nothingness to maturity. In this respect, say the Zens, it is the oak tree that creates the very acorn from which it was born. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Either an executive can do his job or he can't. — Robert Heller

You call my Wall Street words "cuss words" ... I call them "sentence enhancers". — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the end, although I can't imagine what that something is. — Joseph Heller

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. It's the person who says, I'm going to become this and then progressively works toward that goal. — Earl Nightingale