Donizetti La Quotes & Sayings

Kids who are obsessed with locks frequently turn into adults who are obsessed with crypto. — Neal Stephenson

Ivan showed that in his time and place the only antidote to chaos was absolutism. — Robert D. Kaplan

For since a Prince by birth has fewer occasions and less need to give offence, he ought to be better loved, and will naturally be popular with his subjects unless outrageous vices make him odious. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard. — Kelly Ripa

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. — Timothy Leary

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually. — Pirjo Honkasalo

I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one. — Randall Munroe

Honor to our ancestors. — Tyrone Givens

I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music. — Prince Royce

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom. — H.L. Mencken

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up. — Joseph Wambaugh

Fuck me," said Roger. He spit a mouthful of stomach acid into the hall and looked at the bodies. "Look at the old man, going all Bruce Willis on us. — Peter Clines

With plastic siding that was cracked and fading, the trailer squatted on stacked cinder blocks, a temporary foundation that had somehow become permanent over time. It had a single bedroom and bath, a cramped living area, and a kitchen with barely enough room to house a mini refrigerator. Insulation was almost nonexistent, and humidity had warped the floors over the years, making it seem as if he were always walking on a slant. The linoleum in the kitchen was cracking in the corners, the minimal carpet was threadbare, and he'd furnished the narrow space with items he'd picked up over the years at thrift stores. Not a single photograph adorned the walls. — Nicholas Sparks

If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth. — Elihu Thomson