Josette Dicarlo Quotes & Sayings

Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it. — Luc Sante

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it. — Dizzy Dean

The stars govern our conditions — William Shakespeare

You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win. — Judith McNaught

This is peace, if you think about it--machine-gun nests being used as picnic tables. — David Mitchell

Chaga is the most powerful cancer-fighting herb known and fights all kinds of radiation damage to healthy tissue. — David Wolfe

I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet. — Warren Ellis

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize. — Robbie Robertson

Bibles and prayers are great. Also great are people who have gone to school for years and years to learn how to help you work through things. The — Melanie Dale

What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you want to move through a virtual reality it's called a video game, it's been around forever. — James Cameron

Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously. — Paulo Coelho

Dual-income families have turned out a batch of superpredators who have no sympathy or remorse. Blast 'em up on Nintendo; blast 'em up on the streets. — Lisa Gardner

Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos. — Rick Riordan

It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination. — Eric Hoffer