Grimonprez Jooris Quotes & Sayings

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty. — Tony Danza

Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept. — Simon Schama

I went with Tom Ford to a bunch of events one year, and he's so wonderful and handsome and so much fun to be with; he made me look, like, 100 percent better in every single picture. — Julianne Moore

She smiled at him, the way she always did, even when he woke up at oh-what-the-fuck-hundred. — Suzanne Brockmann

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds. — Eminem

Blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. — Henry George

There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power. — Starhawk

It would be unseemly for me to beg for your succour so early in this letter, and so I shall divert you (or so I flatter myself) by relating my last conversation with my employer, Peter Romanov, or Peter the Great, as he is now styled - not without perfectly sound reasons - by many (I say "employer" because he owes - I do not say "pays" - me a stipend to act as his advisor on certain matters; my Mistress and liege-lady remains, as always, Sophie). As — Neal Stephenson

When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things. — Nat King Cole

My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state. — Seal