Intercambios Rotary Quotes & Sayings

It's something useless, sudden, violent; something that costs a life; red, blue, purple; a spirit; a splash ... free from taint, dependence, soilure of humanity or care for one's kind; something rash, ridiculous ... ecstasy - it's ecstasy that matters. — Virginia Woolf

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win. — Casey Stengel

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you. — Jessica Brown Findlay

She wondered if it ever occurred to those people to ask themselves why it mattered. — Anonymous

Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy. — Randy West

Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth. — Brian Setzer

You know, there are very few people I could tell that to and have them laugh instead of calling the cops. Or mental health. — Cherise Sinclair

I'd been brought up on ... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.' — Pierce Brosnan

He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room. — Patricia Highsmith

Although the natural rights inherent in our( Constitutional) regime are adequate to the solution of this ( minority) problem ... the equal protection of the law did not protect a man from contempt and hatred as a Jew, an Italian or a Black" ... " 'Openness' was designed to provide a respectable place for those groups or minorities
to wrest respect from those who were disposed to give it
This breaks the delicate balance between majority and minority in Constitutional thought. In such a perspective where there is no common good, minorities are no longer problematic and the protection of them emerges as THE central function of government. — Allan Bloom

My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true. — Giordano Bruno

They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be assuming the shape of a terrified eye, that stared wildly and fixedly upon the pale, slumbering couple who reeked with crime beneath their very sheets, and dreamt they could see a rain of blood falling in big drops, which turned into golden coins as they plashed upon the floor. — Emile Zola