Funkytown Topic Quotes & Sayings

Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important. — Miriam Schapiro

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it. — Simone Weil

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures. — Benjamin Disraeli

Thick pulse and dizziness make his head light and stomach turn. He really can't feel his fingers, or knees for that matter. But everything settles down again - almost as if it were always meant to - when his eyes graze a dumb grin and a pair of glittering eyes. — Changdictator

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. — Jean De La Fontaine

Awards movies are normally sort of ... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs. — David Fincher

Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it. — Jackie Evancho

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements. — Masi Oka

A company has a responsibility beyond making a profit for stockholders; it has a responsibility to recognize the dignity of its employees as human beings, to the well-being of its customers, and to the community at large. — David Packard

Two days after his twelfth birthday, a fortnight before his father was jailed for debt, Charles Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory. There, in a rat-infested room by the docks, he sat for twelve hours a day, labelling boot polish and learning the pain of abandonment. While he never spoke publicly of this ordeal, it would always be with him: in his social conscience and burning ambition, in the hordes of innocent children who languished and died in his fiction.
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth. And the outcome can't be called. Some of us end up like Dickens, others like Jeffrey Dahmer. It's not a question of good or evil, Pete believes. Just the random brutality of the universe and our native ability to withstand it. — Armistead Maupin

Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished. — Joseph Prince

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not - they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note. — Laini Taylor

Capitalism really had triumphed. You could buy anything from gray-colored chips the size of marbles to giant boulder-size chunks complete with spray-painted graffiti. — Liane Moriarty

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all? — Jiddu Krishnamurti