Fosnight Center Quotes & Sayings

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them. — Carlos Ghosn

Wondering is illusion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life. — Mariel Hemingway

It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make you feel warm and safe, even if you are in the middle of a windy valley high up in the mountains. — Daniel Handler

It is a perverse tradition we honor. Kings adorn their halls with images of battles they won, the people they've conquered." He paced as he vented, a lifetime frustration pent up in that twisted truth. "I have brought kingdoms on the brink of war to peace, and my deeds will never be deemed as heroic as those who kill." - Paris of Troy. — Aria Cunningham

Curiosity is a restless propensity and often does but hurry us forward the more irresistably, the greater is the danger that attends its indulgence. — Lennard J. Davis

Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna, and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so-called Russian, type of beauty. The Emperor noticed her, and honoured her with a dance. — Leo Tolstoy

What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have not begun to read, you have not learned how to read. — John Macy

Some men who live hard and in good health can't believe sickness or weakness is anything but laziness, a sham. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The people = government doctrine is equivalent to political infantilism
an agreement to pretend that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction or exaction inflicted upon him. — James Bovard

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody. — Autumn Reeser

It's hard raising parents. — Tracy Brogan

You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that. — Fergie

In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory. — Anthony Daniels