Marino Casem Quotes & Sayings

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it. — Roy Blount Jr.

Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitimate. — Fatos Nano

With adolescent Nietzscheanism, she already planned to escape on the world's reversals from the sense of suffocation that seemed to her to be eclipsing her family, her sisters, and mother. She, she told herself, would move brightly along high places and stop to trespass and admire, and if the fine was a heavy one - well, there was no good in saving up beforehand to pay it. Full of these presumptuous resolves, she promised herself that if, in the future, her soul should come starving and crying for bread it should eat the stone she might have to offer without complaint or remorse. Relentlessly she convinced herself that the only thing of any significance was to take what she wanted when she could. She did her best. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. — Gary Ryan Blair

I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met. — Julius Rosenwald

A lily does not lose its beauty because it blooms in muddy waters. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action! — Clemence Poesy

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey

You have to feel love to harness its power! — Rhonda Byrne

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice. — Liam O'Flaherty

Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another. — Confucius

I cannot teach a child I do not know — Ted Sizer

Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make a soul tremble in a den like this, where pain must hold its tongue, poverty remain cheerful, and despair retain its self respect. — Honore De Balzac

What matters most: passion or competence that was born in? Berkshireis full of people who have a peculiar passion for their own business. I would argue passion is more important than brain power. — Charlie Munger

It's easier to write songs when you're single. — Lucinda Williams