Ciutat Jardi Quotes & Sayings

being then just dinner-time, we went, first into the great kitchen, where every prisoner's dinner was in course of being set out separately (to be handed to him in his cell), with the regularity and precision of clock-work. I said aside, to Traddles, that I wondered whether it occurred to anybody, that there was a striking contrast between these plentiful repasts of choice quality, and the dinners, not to say of paupers, but of soldiers, sailors, labourers, the great bulk of the honest, working community; of whom not one man in five hundred ever dined half so well. But I learned that the 'system' required high living; and, in short, to dispose of the system, once for all, I found that on that head and on all others, 'the system' put an end to all doubts, and disposed of all anomalies. Nobody appeared to have the least idea that there was any other system, but THE system, to be considered. — Charles Dickens

Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined. — Foxy Brown

One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral. — William Segal

I find myself through my readers; I understand what I wrote when I see that others understand it too. — Paulo Coelho

I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that. — Blanka Vlasic

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow. — Hans Arp

Always stick to your likings - there are profound reasons for them — Frederick Delius

I do not think that any realism is beautiful. — H.P. Lovecraft

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity. — Michel De Montaigne

For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow
you are not understanding yourself. — Bruce Lee

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life. — Judy Woodruff