Learnedto Quotes & Sayings

My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do. — Anna Quindlen

The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning. — Gilles Marini

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens. — Sylvester Stallone

One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world. — Greg Mortenson

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. — Morton Irving Seiden

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness. — Hans Selye

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power. — Michel Foucault

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. — Robert Henri

Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens. — Octavio Paz

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure. — M. Ward

I got so much out of 'The To-Do List.' This is a joke that I say about myself sometimes, in terms of my film career: I feel like I'm always playing the kid in serious adult movies. So, for me, it was so wonderful to suddenly be working with other people my age who were doing this on film. — Sarah Steele