Goodfellas Maury Quotes & Sayings

You're fond, I imagine of your right eye? I mean, you've gone to the trouble of putting make up on it. — Glen Duncan

Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business ... the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products. — Noam Chomsky

When you know love ... that's what makes life worth it. — Carrie Ryan

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita — Laura Esquivel

Buddy when he come back from up in the panhandle told me one time it quit blowin up there and all the chickens fell over. — Cormac McCarthy

His wife was disappearing from life like a wet mark drying on a shirt. — Paolo Giordano

You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you. — Orison Swett Marden

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth — Alastair Reynolds

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters. — E.F. Schumacher