Cortona Bison Quotes & Sayings

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse. — J.J. Abrams

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence. — Mahatma Gandhi

When an attack on home soil causes cultural paroxysms that have nothing to do with the attack, when we respond to real threats to our nation by distrusting ourselves with imagined threats to femininity and family life, when we invest our leaders with a cartoon masculinity and require of them bluster in lieu of a capacity for rational calculation, and when we blame our frailty in 'fifth column' feminists - in short, when we base our security on a mythical male strength that can only increase itself against a mythical female weakness - we should know that we are exhibiting the symptoms of a lethal, albeit curable, cultural affliction (p. 295). — Susan Faludi

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds? — Mark Skousen

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment. — John Barrow

Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict's uniform. — John Marsden

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions" (James 4:3). Our — Francis Chan

Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked ... — Mikhail Bulgakov

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression. — Betty Goodwin

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world. — Paulo Coelho

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible. — Richard Wagner

If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always be in danger of becoming slaves to the ideas and values of others due to our own ignorance. — William Hughes

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be. — J.J. Abrams

When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch. — Adrian Beltre

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done. — Mary Douglas