Lesportsac Quotes & Sayings

Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interest of no creature except himself. — George Orwell

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens. — Nigella Lawson

A wise man never asks what another man serves, for only his actions will speak the truth. — Seneca.

The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of Naples. People have mentioned that Naples is like a character in the novels. — Ann Goldstein

Like most geniuses, the Countess was a very limited person. Sigmund Freud was so ignorant of the art that Surrealist painters had to explain then- use of Freudian symbols over and over again, and he still didn't get it. Einstein never could remember to take the biscuits out of oven. Those same forces that drive a genius to create things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces (Should you invite Van Gogh to your home he might stand on your sofa in his muddy boots and pee where he pleased), and the very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance, and certainly that sputter less little candle. Same of the mediocre mind known as "common sense" has never produced anything worth celebrating. — Tom Robbins

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals — Carl Lewis

Don't let your girlfriend cut your hair! — Stephen Colbert

I was once told that sometimes out of limitation comes our greatest strength. — Carol McKay

You are there to support the vision of the people who you choose to excute the movie. — Nina Jacobson