Giacomo Balla Futurism Quotes & Sayings

You tread a difficult path, Amber. You are none of the things they will think you are. In the end, you will have no guides but yourself. — Mark Henwick

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other. — Juliana Of The Netherlands

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. — Mother Teresa

No one at fifteen was ever in love, outside of Romeo and Juliet, and maybe not even them. Old Giff used to argue that the star-crossed lovers simply were buzzed on the fumes of forbidden lust. Give them thirty years of togetherness, Old Giff always said, and Juliet would be plunging the dagger into Romeo. — Laura Lippman

Tally sticks were quite explicitly IOUs: both parties to a transaction would take a hazelwood twig, notch it to indicate the amount owed, and then split it in half. The creditor would keep one half, called "the stock" (hence the origin of the term "stock holder") and the debtor kept the other, called "the stub" (hence the origin of the term "ticket stub.) — David Graeber

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth. — Dorothy L. Sayers