Goldfussi Quotes & Sayings

No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched. — Herta Muller

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney

The pigs were pushing their noses through the slats in the truck bed, which made Langston so unaccountably sad she thought she would have to sit down on the sidewalk. How is it possible, she thought, that a person can drive a thinking, feeling, animal to slaughter and not become less than an animal himself? And what were the pigs searching for, after all, but air and freedom? — Haven Kimmel

Years may wrinkle your skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles your soul. — Joyce Meyer

Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods. — Michael Winter

It's really beautiful. But you know, fancy footwear is a pain! — Sarah Michelle Gellar

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. — Oriana Fallaci

You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable. — Christina Rasmussen

Narcissism, detachment, schizoid personality, sociopath - these things run rampant in the human race in varying degrees. — C.C. Hunter

The tooth emerged, like a great white whale," he said. "We alerted the press. — Lauren Myracle

This is also, I hope, a book about innovation. At a time when the United States is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build creative digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness, imagination, and sustained innovation. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. He and his colleagues at Apple were able to think differently: They developed not merely modest product advances based on focus groups, but whole new devices and services that consumers did not yet know they needed. — Walter Isaacson

Take the case of prostitutes, a group more or less available every night. As a young man, Proust had been a compulsive masturbator, so compulsive that his father had urged him to go to a brothel, to take his mind off what the nineteenth century considered to be a highly dangerous pastime. In a candid letter to his grandfather, sixteen-year-old Marcel described how the visit had gone: I so badly needed to see a woman in order to stop my bad habits of masturbating that papa gave me 10 francs to go to the brothel. But, 1st in my excitement, I broke the chamber pot, 3 francs, 2nd in this same excitement, I wasn't able to have sex. So now I'm back to square one, constantly waiting for another 10 francs to empty myself and for 3 more francs for that pot. — Alain De Botton

You're barely older than me.'

'Than I,' he corrected me with a little smile. — H.P. Mallory