Gon Alves Quotes & Sayings

I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now. — J. D. Pardo

I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!" — Craig Seymour

And if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this. Or who would desert his beloved or fail him in the hour of danger? — Plato

But gentlemen, what sort of free choice will there be when it comes down to tables and arithmetic, when all that's left is two times two makes four? Two times two makes four even without my will. Is that what you call free choice?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me. — Chevy Chase

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me. — Jimmy Cliff

As [William] Valentiner noted in his uncompleted memoirs Remembering Artists, [Diego] Rivera's [Detroit Industry] murals rooted the Detroit Institute of Arts to the many-faceted jewel of its central court because of the harmonious, fertile relationship between "the industrialist" and "the artist." Rivera remarked to Valentiner how especially struck he was that "Edsel had none of the characteristics of the exploiting capitalist, that he had the simplicity and directness of a workman in his won factories and was like one of the best of them." Their relationship was like the murals themselves, a superb expression of pluralism, toleration, and empathy for the other, and of a cosmopolitan sense of all the Americas, not just of the United States of America or Detroit alone. — John Dean

I have a funny accent in every language. — Carmen Busquets

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers. — Lord Chesterfield

If you love someone, be their everything. — T.A

She believed in second chances, sometimes more than first chances, which were wasted on youth and indiscretion. — Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Love was death's only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp. — Anna Carey

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests. — William Stanley Jevons

Since when are you a breeder? — Stephenie Meyer