Gesimondo Florida Quotes & Sayings

The British academic Richard Schoch, in his book The Secrets of Happiness, put it this way: "Your imagination must, to some extent, be found in a realm beyond reason because it begins with imagining a future reality: the self that you might become. — Eric Weiner

Our country is Germany
one country that should be reunited. We don't belong to Moscow or to the west. We belong to ourselves and I have never betrayed that. This tunnel has taken every ounce of courage we have. We're not cowards. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

I don't think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn't tomorrow an unknown even if we all stay right here where tradition is kept and every piece of ground is familiar? — Cindy Woodsmall

What's happened? screamed Mrs. Twit. They stood in the middle of the room, looking up. All the furniture, the big table, the chairs, the sofa, the lamps, the little side tables, the cabinet with bottles of beer in it, the ornaments, the electric heater, the carpet, everything was stuck upside down to the ceiling. The pictures were upside down on the walls. And the floor they were standing on was absolutely bare. What's more, it had been painted white to look like the ceiling. — Roald Dahl

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing. — Benmont Tench

It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and African American. — Utkarsh Ambudkar

Who lies for you will lie against you. — Bosnian Proverb

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture. — Brendan Iribe