Martinova Bouda Quotes & Sayings

Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local parade route, lights flashing; they are not the subject of countless popular books and movies; major politicians do not honor their sacrifices on the Senate floor or from the Rose Garden; they do not have bagpipe bands, fancy equipment, enduring icons, or other signifiers of honor verifying the importance of their activity. — Matthew Desmond

People pay attention to the things they want to listen, anything that doesn't please them is rubbish. — Himmilicious

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology. — V.S. Naipaul

Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school. — Peter Jacobson

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse. — Ken Danby

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away. — Cassandra Clare

Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades. — Tran Duc Luong

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism. — Dominique De Villepin

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages! — Miranda Otto