Larisa Quotes & Sayings

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay. — Larisa Oleynik

And again and again I have to remind myself the whole art of life is to lean on people, to involve oneself with them quite fearlessly and yet - when the props are kicked away - remain leaning, as it were, on empty air. Like levitation. — Christopher Isherwood

One of these was Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens, founded by Plato three hundred years before. He inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which asserted that knowledge of the nature of things is in the nature of things unattainable. Such ideas were well judged to appeal to a student of rhetoric who had learned to argue all sides of a case. — Anthony Everitt

No-I'm not going to wallow and pretend it was 'better in the old days' - that's a tedious and thankless occupation. It's just when you live in a desert and you feel proper thirst you try to quench it in the only way you're able, by falling down to the old and dried up springs. — Larisa Miller

Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record, — Larisa Latynina

When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals. — Laozi

Honestly, I have yet to encounter a really bad working experience. Sets are really my favorite places to be because of the many varied and interesting people you get to meet, interact and collaborate with. And I have always developed strong bonds with female costars. No cattiness yet! — Larisa Oleynik

had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters, — Jane Austen

I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too. — Larisa Oleynik

If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career. — Larisa Oleynik

I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is. — Larisa Oleynik

Someone's a very dirty Uncle." ... "And a very naughty niece — G.A. Aiken

I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up. — Larisa Oleynik

I'm quite happy there is a man in the world who can overcome my record, finally. — Larisa Latynina

Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent? — Larisa Alexandrovna

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works. — Larisa Oleynik

God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self. — Pope Benedict XVI

Don't get discouraged, and think positive all the time. Don't get down on yourself if you lose out a couple of times. It's just a lot of hard work. — Larisa Oleynik

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God. — Larisa Alexandrovna

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment. — Larisa Oleynik

If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime. — Larisa Alexandrovna

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid. — Keith Richards

Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens ... inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which asserted that knowledge of the nature of things is in the nature of things unattainable. Such ideas were well judged to appeal to a student of rhetoric who had learned to argue all sides of a case. In his early twenties Cicero wrote the first two volumes of a work on 'inventin'
that is to say, the technique of finding ideas and arguments for a speech; in it he noted that the most important thing was 'that we do not recklessly and presumptuously assume something to be true.' This resolute uncertainty was to be a permanent feature of his thought. — Anthony Everitt

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly. — Larisa Oleynik

I started [flying] by being scared. When I was an amateur I played a couple tournaments and I had to fly, and got into weather and stuff, and it scared me, and I decided that would not work, I had to learn to fly, I had to find out about airplanes and aeronautical engineering and what it was all about. — Arnold Palmer

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking. — Richard Koch

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. — Ambrose Bierce

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism. — Larisa Alexandrovna

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy. — Larisa Alexandrovna

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life. — Larisa Oleynik

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom. — Michelle Phan

I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now. — Larisa Oleynik

Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits. — Larisa Kuznetsova

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free. — Johnny Cash

I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults.
But if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into the most trouble over the years...
...it would be that I sometimes get angry. — Mike Mignola

We should do nothing for revenge, but everything for security: nothing for the past; everything for the present and the future. — James A. Garfield

Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness. — Larisa Alexandrovna