Giacomo Serpotta Quotes & Sayings

What's with books and soldiers? I wonder. The whole bloody army is turning into pansy intellectuals. — Mohammed Hanif

The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

It was fine. I'm getting real tired of that word. It's a nothing word, and when people say it, it never really means what it's supposed to. — Leah Rae Miller

I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so. — Paul Watson

Someone asked me recently - what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I'm not falling for that one again, wife. — Mark Watson

Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - ALBERT EINSTEIN — Anthony Robbins

One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . 'Libertarians' . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over... — Murray N. Rothbard

When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear:
Oh darling I wish you were here. — Owl City

This sound, which like all music--indeed, like all pleasure--I had been numbly unresponsive to for months, pierced my heart like a dagger, and in a flood of swift recollection I thought of all the joys the house had known: the children who had rushed through its rooms, the festivals, the love and work, the honestly earned slumber, the voices and the nimble commotion, the perennial tribe of cats and dogs and birds, "laughter and ability and Sighing, And Frocks and Curls." All this I realized was more than I could ever abandon, even as what I had set out so deliberately to do was more than I could inflict on those memories, and upon those, so close to me, with whom the memories were bound. And just as powerfully I realized I could not commit this desecration on myself. — William Styron

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently. — Jeff Goodell

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder. — Margery Allingham

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. — Anatole France

It's nice to create something you believe in. It's even nicer to dance to your own tunes sometimes. — Shreya Ghoshal