Condottieri Class Quotes & Sayings

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic. — David Suchet

Experts tend to be busy and hyper organized. They want to help you, but the easier you make it for them, the better. They most likely do not have time to read your entire book or try out your 12 hour course, so summarize and highlight the strong points for them. Give them specific guidelines to make it very easy on their part. — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. — Henry Ward Beecher

So the professor takes the student's point seriously, and responds with a concise but adequate argument in defence of the disputed equation. The professor tries hard to show no sign of being irritated by criticism from so lowly a source. Most of the questions from the floor will have the form of criticisms which, if valid, would diminish or destroy the professor's life's work. But bringing vigorous and diverse criticism to bear on accepted truths is one of the very purposes of the seminar. Everyone takes it for granted that the truth is not obvious, and that the obvious need not be true; that ideas are to be accepted or rejected according to their content and not their origin; that the greatest minds can easily make mistakes; and that the most trivial-seeming objection may be the key to a great new discovery. — David Deutsch

Life is full of opportunities although there are hurdles that needs to be overcome. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Stop insisting on clearing your head - clear your fucking heart instead. — Charles Bukowski

If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing. — Stephen Jay Gould

To whom much has been given, much is required. — Michael Eric Dyson

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious. — Terence McKenna

While St. Louis is technically regarded as part of the Mid-West, it's actually - geographically and emotionally - more part of the South. I mean, the sensibility of St. Louis is really very much that of a Southern Mississippi river-town. — David Sanborn

The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that: — Anonymous

Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun. — Paul McCartney