Grumpy Old Men Burgess Meredith Quotes & Sayings

I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything that came before it led up to it, and everything of importance to this country - at least up to 1940 - was a consequence of it. Even now there's an echo of the war, however faint, in almost everyone's life. — Ken Burns

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present. — Steve Toltz

Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words. — Sophocles

If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that
it teaches us the way to attain what we long for. — Peter Kingsley

I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real. — Krishna Das

Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary's Grandfather/Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Luckily for me, I became a rap star so I'm making enough money to support my family. It's funny because that may seem like the only way that I can do such a task. — Joey Badass

Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they're also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don't. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously. — Beth Revis

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all. — Maya Angelou

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it. — Mark Helprin

No doubt there was some time-wasting in coffee houses, as their critics claimed. But coffee houses also provided a lively intellectual and social environment in which people could meet and ideas could collide in unexpected ways, producing a stream of innovations that shaped the modern world. On balance, the introduction of coffee houses did far more good than harm, which should give those concerned about the time-wasting potential of Internet-based social platforms pause for thought. What new ideas and unexpected connections might be brewing in Twitter's global coffeehouse? — Tom Standage

You can never be too far away from a disaster, because there is no disaster-free zone in this entire universe! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you don't allow yourself to love, to fully saturate yourself with someone else's life, someone else's feelings, if you don't allow your ego to disappear and your heart to beat for another person so that every breath you take is taken for them, that person, well, then I'm afraid you'll be missing out on one of life's only blessings. — Melissa Foster