Cribbo Quotes & Sayings

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo. — Peg Bracken

We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness. — Mao Zedong

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy. — Sylvester Stallone

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration. — Hideki Tojo

NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness. — Donald Rumsfeld

The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over ... next! — Diana Krall

My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was one of those conversations that moved in fits and starts. The heavy stuff had been thrown into the open and they were trying to pick up the pieces, gently, carefully, wary of the exposed edges. — K.B. Spangler

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken. — Andy Hertzfeld

One of my favorite stores in the Old Town is Buchbinderei. It's this tiny stationery shop where the owner, Doris Feldman, makes these beautiful hand-bound notebooks I always buy for gifts. — Daniel Humm

Make God's glory your object in life; live in his sight; dwell close to him; seek for fellowship with him; and thou hast "godliness"; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Secret Service I'm really excited about because Matthew Vaughn directed it. I've done a couple of movies with him - Stardust, which is one of my favorite films, and Kick-Ass, which is just a crazy, wonderful movie. — Mark Strong

We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together. — Alex Van Halen

A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way. — Michael Longley

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. — Paul Whiteman