Gran Torino Audio Quotes & Sayings

There are no separations - only connections. There are no deaths - only transformations. — Debasish Mridha

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. — Paul Cezanne

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out. — Jim Benton

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation. — Henry Threadgill

Ceaselessly, evil battles with good, right clashes with wrong, darkness comes against the light, and the counterfeit struggles to supplant the real. — Bob Larson

There were protocols to meet for the historic occasion. On the lunar dust they placed mementoes for the five-deceased American and Soviet spacemen, Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Vladimir Komarov, and Yuri Gagarin (who died in a plane crash in 1968). They unsheathed a metal disc on the descent stage with engraved messages to future moon visitors. As Neil Armstrong read the plaque's words, his voice carried throughout the world. "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July 1969, AD. We came in peace for all mankind." There was yet another small cargo - private and precious - carried by Neil Armstrong to the moon. It was not divulged at the time, but he carried the diamond-studded astronaut pin made especially for Deke Slayton by the three Apollo 1 astronauts and presented to him by their widows after that dreadful fire. — Alan Shepard

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me. — Heikki Kovalainen

I want no proof of affection but of engagement I do. — Jane Austen

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice. — Henry Rollins

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril. — Sun Tzu

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. — Joshua Reynolds

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made. — Roberto Cavalli