Fortane Quotes & Sayings

I'm a big Letterman fan. — Andy Samberg

I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that. — Celine

A problem is an opportunity to see your life through another window. — Debasish Mridha

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel. — H.L. Mencken

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. — Ray Bradbury

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere. — Loretta Young

The places of pilgrimage have marked a kind of geography of faith in our country, that is, they make visible, almost tangible, how our forefathers encountered the living God, how HE did not withdraw after creation or after the time of Jesus Christ, but is always present and works in them so that they were able to experience HIM, follow in his footsteps, and see him in the works HE performed. Yes, HE is there, and HE is still there today. It is from this inner encounter with the Lord that there originated the places and images of pilgrimage in which we, so to speak, can participate in what they saw, in what their faith provided for them. — Pope Benedict XVI

To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress. — Tahir Shah

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. — Adolf Loos

I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to. — Camryn Manheim