Gianni Schicchi Quotes & Sayings

I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about — Henry David Thoreau

Rowe was later to hear Johnson recounting the conversation to Richard Russell. "He said, 'Well, you know, Dick, I was really making some progress with Adlai. I took my knife and held it right against him. All of a sudden I felt some steel in my ribs and I looked around and Finnegan had a knife in my ribs.' He laughed, and Russell said, 'Finnegan is a pro,' and that was it. — Robert A. Caro

Most sound minds resent flattery, because they see the egotism behind the screen of altruism. — Fulton J. Sheen

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably. — Anita Ekberg

Whenever you feel weak, God is reminding you to depend on him. — Rick Warren

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. — Rand Paul

Experimentation without mathematical explanation is blind; mathematical explanation without experimentation is empty. — Bill Bryson

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida. — Michael Moore

If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read. — Ken Scott

In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece. — Herman Melville

In the existence of our lives, there are many coincidences that bring people together, but there's only one person that will own your heart forever, — Jessica Sorensen

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. — George Lucas

Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up something in the same spots in the house as the primary witnesses who reported the haunting. This indicates that something actually exists in the environment at those spots on some level, physical or psychic. — Loyd Auerbach

There can be people who feel one way about gay rights, another way about gay rights. There can be people who have different views on abortion. But we respect each other. I think we learn from each other. And we understand that ultimately we have the same values. — Rudy Giuliani

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study. — David Pilbeam