Kristantoparanto Quotes & Sayings

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things. — Gwyneth Paltrow

If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content. — Douglas Rushkoff

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in. — Vanessa Carlton

Filters are for cigarettes, not for humans, — Brittainy C. Cherry

Patience makes the world go round. — Rob Buyea

The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high. — Rajneesh

Classical mythology is a catalogue of indescribable cruelty: [ ... ] It is a world dominated by evil, where even the most beautiful beings carry out atrocities. — Umberto Eco

The harder I work, the luckier I become. — Terry Pratchett

The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices. — Sara Bareilles

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don't know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don't know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life. — Hugh Prather

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. — Margaret Mead

I am unbalanced - but I am not mad with snow. I am mad the way young girls are mad, with an offering, an offering ... I burn the way money burns. — Anne Sexton