Florescu Family Quotes & Sayings

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner ... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach ... It is a sort of benediction on the house. — Pablo Casals

What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material. — Elaine Pagels

The people who are scared of going on a diet are the people who could benefit the most from one. — Robert Cheeke

It's just a storm in a tea cup,' someone says
The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone. — Paulo Coelho

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God. — Clement Of Alexandria

Without this faculty of man and beast alike to recognize identities across the variations of difference, to make allowance for changed conditions, and to preserve the framework of a stable world, art could not exist. When we open our eyes under water we recognize objects, shapes, and colors although through an unfamiliar medium. When we first see pictures we see them in an unfamiliar medium. This is more than a mere pun. The two capacities are interrelated. Every time we meet with an unfamiliar type of transposition, there is a brief moment of shock and a period of adjustment-but it is an adjustment for which the mechanism exists in us. — E.H. Gombrich

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it. — Warren Ellis

The most important days in your life are the day you were born ... and the day you find out why. — Mark Twain

We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too ... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina. — Binyavanga Wainaina