Concreto Armado Quotes & Sayings

The sad truth about humanity ... is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given. — Neal Shusterman

The weapons attacking her were a diverse mix: antiques such as American carbines, Czech-style machine guns, Japanese Type-38 rifles; newer weapons such as standard-issue People's Liberation Army rifles and submachine guns, stolen from the PLA after the publication of the "August Editorial"; and even a few Chinese dadao swords and spears. — Liu Cixin

Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices. — LL Cool J

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea. — Janet Evanovich

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film. — Garry Marshall

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries. — Andrzej Wajda

The audience had run to beards and magenta shirts and original ways of arranging its neckwear; and not content with the ravages produced in its over-excitable nervous system by the remorseless workings of its critical intelligence, it had sat through a film of Japanese life called 'Yes,' made by a Norwegian film company in 1915 with Japanese actors, which lasted an hour and three-quarters and contained twelve close-ups of water-lilies lying perfectly still on a scummy pond and four suicides, all done extremely slowly. — Stella Gibbons

When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet. — Henry Ward Beecher

A witch stands comfortably within her mystery and allure. — Dacha Avelin

The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself. — Robert Warshow

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there. — Diane Paulus

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done. — Emanuel Cleaver

I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first. — Barbara Brennan

It's a proclamation he regards as complete absolution from answering ... as if his last name was Bush, he was eighteen, and there was a draft going on. — Laurie Notaro

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. — Norman Mailer