Cioffi Union Quotes & Sayings

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing. — Alana Blanchard

People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud. — Geoff Rickly

Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings. — George R R Martin

Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them — Daniel Defoe

I didn't think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and maybe that was enough. — Leigh Bardugo

The transformation of cities A suburban world The emerging world is becoming suburban. Its leaders should welcome that, but avoid the West's mistakes Dec 6th 2014 | From the print edition IN THE West, suburbs could hardly be less fashionable. Singers and film-makers lampoon them as the haunts of bored teenagers and — Anonymous

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane. — Kristin Davis

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum. — Jon Krakauer

Desire is something very egoistic. If you desire something, you also have to take the consequences of that. You have to study the market and see how it can go. I mean to become an artist ... You never get the Nobel-price for example. You can normally never become a millionaire. Very few become millionaires, so the circumstances are very bad if one becomes an artist. And that should be taken into consideration. — Odd Nerdrum

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. — Leonard Bernstein