Magnora Quotes & Sayings

If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of a king or of a queen, an ant or a camel, how great then is the mastery which can form as actuality everything which is in all potentiality? Therefore, God, who is able to produce from the most minute piece of matter the similitude of all forms which can be in this world and in infinitely many worlds, is of admirable subtlety. — Nicholas Of Cusa

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. — George Bernard Shaw

Too revved to sleep."
"Is that so?" Some of the light she loved was back in his eyes. "Well, what can we do to pass the time, help you relax? Cribbage, perhaps?"
Her eyes narrowed. "Cribbage? Is that some perverted sexual activity?"
He laughed, and grabbing her, tossed her onto the bed. "Why not? — J.D. Robb

What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species. — Robert Ardrey

Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare. — Loretta Napoleoni

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life. — Nick Kroll

...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.] — James Vescovi

Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused - pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground. — Laura Davis

There is an unequivocal question in every layer of a dawn's beautiful rise that asks: "What are you going to do with this one glorious day? — Melanie Gow

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas

He said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years. — Sherman Alexie

People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking. — Omar Sharif

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled. — Bob Goff

We used to play around with our implicitly,
we are too enjoying a game of looking and interpreting our self,
until there is one thing that may be forgotten:
is happy incomplete, if we do not explicitly express it? — CG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

You get changed by the Bill Belichick way, you get changed by the Patriot Way, — Aaron Hernandez