Farmi Quotes & Sayings

Yeah. I failed R&R in school. I was too busy studying for my anal retention classes. — Rosanna Leo

I mean, why would you want the funny sidekick when you can have the heroine? — Lauren Layne

When Husni Zaim seized power from Shukri al-Quwatli on 30 March 1949, Syria's economy was a parlous state and its army had been beaten the previous November by the Israelis. Zaim knew that he needed to take action on both fronts fast. After overthrowing al-Quwatli bloodlessly, he set out to open peace talks with the Israelis and mend relations with the French via a currency agreement and an arms deal that would pave the way for renewed French influence in the former mandate. But Zaim's reign did not last long. One hundred and thirty-seven days after he had taken power, on 14 August he too was overthrown and executed. — James Barr

After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life. — Roman Romanenko

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people. — Cornel West

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. — Philibert Joseph Roux

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse. — Heraclitus

To a surprising conclusion about this moment in our lives. No, it's not that there are weird freckly spots on the back of our hands, although there are, or that construction guys don't make smutty comments as we pass, although they don't. It's that we've done a pretty good job of becoming ourselves, and that this is, in so many ways, the time of our lives. As Carly Simon once sang, "These are the good old days." Lots of candles, plenty of cake. I wouldn't be twenty-five again on a bet, or even forty. — Anna Quindlen

I hear nothing and see no movement. There's nothing but my fear telling me to abort. So I go on. — Susan Ee

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning. — Wilbur Ross

Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman ... — Neil Gaiman

The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Devo farmi le ossa is how they say it in Italian. I need to make my bones. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent. — Roy Wood

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will ; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. — Athol Fugard