Istrajnost Quotes & Sayings

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it. — Jerry Seinfeld

I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies. — Michael Keaton

When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all of these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to speak and given a thousand other things, over and over again, hourly, daily, for years. She gave me everything before she gave me nothing. — Rebecca Solnit

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.
(on Craig Bellamy) — Bobby Robson

I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer. — Donald Ray Pollock

At such times [drunk] all the doors of a woman's being are opened. The sentinels relax and a kind word is as powerful as gold or love. — Nikos Kazantzakis

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Ebbets Field was a narrow cockpit, built of brick and iron and concrete, alongside a steep cobblestone slope of Bedford Avenue. Two tiers of grandstand pressed the playing area from three sides, and in thousands of seats fans could hear a ball player's chatter, notice details of a ball player's gait and, at a time when television had not yet assaulted illusion with the Zoomar lens, you could see, you could actually see, the actual expression on the actual face of an actual major leaguer as he played. You could know what he was like! — Roger Kahn

The fact that the infrastructure is falling apart is not necessarily because it's built poorly. The New York City subways were built in 1903. The fact that they're still running at all is an enormous success. The fact that New York City's bridges have held up as long as they have is extraordinary, and the engineers didn't have computers to tell them about tolerance. They overbuilt these things - traffic on them is like an ant on an elephant. — Alan Weisman

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense. — Joshua Foer

In your heart, you have a song that will change the world, once you give yourself permission to sing. — Vironika Tugaleva

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on — Richard Gere

Nature is God's Old Testament. — Theodore Parker

He had the sex tape, the canceled tour dates and now the record label's sword of Damocles hanging over his head to prove it. — Pepper Winters

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? — Jane Nelsen