Elektrina Plyn Quotes & Sayings

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind. — David R. Brower

Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction. — Henry Ford

Ian did, with a blackened eye, skinned knuckles, and the terse report that Manfred had declared a set intention of going off and hanging himself, and good riddance to the fornicating son of a bitch, and might his rotten bowels gush forth like Judas Iscariot's, the traitorous, stinking wee turd. — Diana Gabaldon

When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes — Darren Hayes

Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not. — John Adams

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. — Melissa Seligman

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie. — Seann William Scott

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily. — Paul Westerberg

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world ... they're all in American universities. — Milton Friedman

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film. — Roland Joffe

They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under. — Khaled Hosseini

The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years. — Brian Clough

The world is generally multivariate — Edward Tufte

I wanted to scare her," Cody repeated. "Make her leave it alone." Victor let out a surprised laugh. It was one that had served him well in courtrooms, and it didn't fail him this time. Cody flinched again. "Make her 'leave it alone?'" Victor repeated in disbelief. "You just made her more determined, you little idiot." Cody's unkempt eyebrows drew together. "She's just a girl." "That makes her more dangerous, you fool! She'll work twice as hard to get the accolades her male counterparts take as their due." Victor — Stephanie A. Cain

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. — Harold Prince