Mastella Vanities Quotes & Sayings

Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1. — Andrew Cuomo

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny ... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are. — Thomas Jefferson

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man. — Edward Gibbon

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them... — Winston Graham

When you get drunk you don't tear anything apart except yourself. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If this is what it's like to be human, he thought, no wonder the world is so fucked up. — Daryl Gregory

You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you too. You eat well because the intensity of taste reminds you of a need satisfied, a pain relieved. The finest paintings are nothing more than the red head of a flower, nodding in the breeze, when you were two years old; the most exciting film is just the way everything was, back in the days when you stared goggle-eyed at the whirling chaos all around you. All these things do is get the adult to shut up for a while, to open for just a moment a tiny sliding window in the cell deep inside, letting the pallid child peep hungrily out and drink the world in before darkness falls again. — Michael Marshall Smith