Daruri Manastiresti Quotes & Sayings

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn. — Patrick Rothfuss

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. — Harry S. Truman

Most athletes are media shy. They keep to themselves and to their training. I'm not saying it is absolutely necessary for them to come out and face the cameras with confidence, but if they do, it will only help them. They will find themselves closer to their fans and will also get their word across more effectively. — Vijender Singh

The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas. And in the savage the brain retains, as we may say, but few impressions, it is wholly at the mercy of the feeling that rushes in upon it; while in the civilized man, ideas sink into the heart and change it; he has a thousand interests and many feelings, where the savage has but one at a time. — Honore De Balzac

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you. — Al Lopez

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. — Milton Friedman

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh. — Armando Iannucci

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art. — Germaine Greer

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck. — Henry David Thoreau

The moral courage required to hold a different view and to press it upon irritated readers or unsympathetic listeners remains everywhere in short supply. — Tony Judt

If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos. — Denise Chavez

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. — Jason Kidd

Once your life is clutter-free, literally and metaphorically, you will feel less stressed and your life will have more room for happiness. — Jamie Becker

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation. — Brad Delp