Contarini Palace Quotes & Sayings

Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career. — Bill Vaughan

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street. — David Simon

If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being. — Neal Boortz

The memories are very fucking great. I never want to forget. Ever. I'd rather die than not have these memories. Is that great enough for you? — Lucian Bane

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. — Oscar Wilde

We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others. — Forrest Curran

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him — Eldridge Cleaver

Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves. — Allen Zadoff

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in. — Ice Cube

The message is that people are more likely to agree with you when they have already said something positive. — Richard Wiseman

Too. A woman should have something of her own. Doro — Octavia E. Butler

The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness - by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come. — Daniel Dennett