Febbraio Group Quotes & Sayings

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it. — James Forrestal

There was an innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion. The name of this article was Twemlow. — Charles Dickens

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I'm kind of getting the concept of closure. It's no big dramatic before-after. It's more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times. — Gayle Forman

In the General History of Africa, we come across very impressive facts about the culture of primitive African peoples. It is known, for example, that in the old African kingdoms, all foreigners-whether white or colored- enjoyed hospitality and had the same rights as the native people. At the same time, a foreigner in ancient Rome or Greece usually became a slave. Such and similar facts have probably made Leo Frobenius, a well-known German ethnologist and a great connoisseur of Africa, write : The Africans are civilized up to their bones, and the idea of their being barbarians is a European fiction. — Alija Izetbegovic

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. — Stan Brakhage

If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot. — Bonnie Bedelia

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life? — Gary Lutz

Do me a favor," he says, "and don't call me that. — Veronica Roth