Galano Club Quotes & Sayings

I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment. — Richard A. Falk

A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying. — Aisha Mirza

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy. — Wynn Bullock

Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking around the globe. — John Conyers

I howl for my wife, for my father. For Ragnar and Quinn and Pax and Narol. For all the people I've lost. For all they would take. I howl because I am a Helldiver of Lykos. I am the Reaper of Mars. And I have paid for access to this bunker with my flesh, all so that I might either die with my friends or see our enemies brought to justice. — Pierce Brown

We need an inclusive world not merely because of the fear of our survival. We need it because hope is feasible. We need it because dreaming is good and aspirations are essential. We need it because every citizen of the earth can become a participant. We need it because the tomorrow is ours. We need it because the impossible is often possible." (Sundeep Waslekar, Nelson Mandela Benefit Speech, Dubai, December 16, 2005) — Sundeep Waslekar

Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort. — Loren Eiseley

Though he was near perfection and was bearing his final wound, it still seemed to him as if those childlike people were his brothers, their vanities, desires for possession, and ridiculous aspects were no longer ridiculous to him, became understandable, became lovable, even became worthy of veneration to him. — Hermann Hesse

Stomach-sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. This — Jeffrey Eugenides

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get. — Kevin Hart

The selective activation of compatible memories explains anchoring: the high and the low numbers activate different sets of ideas in memory. The estimates of annual temperature draw on these biased samples of ideas and are therefore biased as well. — Daniel Kahneman

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. — Max Beerbohm