Gioiello Quotes & Sayings

Sharecropping is the dirty little secret at the root of America's wealth - along with slavery itself. The immense profits generated by the industrious yet impoverished Black "sharecroppers" and "tenant farmers" financed Europe's and America's Industrial Revolution, including the building of their railroads, factories, mills, and their entire infrastructure. It is truthfully asserted that the major cities of America and the Western world were "built with bricks of cotton." Today the debt traps designed to ensnare the working poor and middle class in a lifelong cycle of debt - the high-cost installment loans that charge usurious interest rates of 100% or more, the "payday" loans that charge 400% interest, the extortionate credit card multi-charges, the subprime mortgages with ballooning interest rates, and the home equity loan swindles - are the bastard children of the sharecropping American South. It — Reclamation Project

With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

...People stop, stare. No one stop and stare if one of your own beggars drop dead in street. No just step over him like he is a stone, or a dog turd and go away quickly. But when they see a white man with golden hair lying on the street, everyone stop, everyone cry, "Hai - hai, - poor boy, call doctor, call ambulance. What has happen, Farrokh-bhai?"..."

- Farrokh said to Baumgartner when he wanted to get rid of the reluctant, overly drugged homeless foreigner out of his restaurant. (Page 167) — Anita Desai

Lord, take every cursed thing out of my soul that keeps me from believing the Lord Jesus Christ — John G. Lake

Tracy Morgan is subdued. I'm cool. I'm chilled out. — Tracy Morgan

The straw hat is the typical hat Cubans use. It's cool and keeps the sun away from your face. — Desi Arnaz

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics. — Dick Pound

The past and the future are not a collection of instants shared by all space, but a collection of events that correspond to a possible relation of causal order with the present event. — Felix Alba-Juez

When wealth ascends to a point where the majority of the poor finally comprehend that it is, for each of them, unattainable, then all civility collapses, and anarchy prevails. — Steven Erikson

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it. — Boris Johnson

Art = Passionate = Stupid

- (BackStrom Season 1 episode 11) — Deyth Banger

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. — H.L. Mencken

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers. — Samuel Johnson

A kiss is a flower of love, a sweet song of two hearts, and a memory of eternal desires. — Debasish Mridha