Marina And The Diamonds Primadonna Quotes & Sayings

The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so exhausted F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was at last brought down to the point where he could no longer be both a good writer and a decent person. — Nelson Algren

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. — Edmund Burke

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before. — Barack Obama

Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. — Robert A. Heinlein

It may be that you, my dear X, recognise something of yourself in these instances; a disposition to resistance, however slight, against arbitrary authority or witless mass opinion, or a thrill of recognition when you encounter some well-wrought phrase from a free intelligence. If so, let us continue to correspond so that I may draw from your experience even as you flatter me by asking to draw upon mine. For the moment, do bear in mind that the cynics have a point, of a sort, when they speak of the "professional nay-sayer." To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do. — Christopher Hitchens

He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests. — Graham McNeill

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring. — Yoko Ono

Life is greater than you have ever known it. — Ernest Holmes