Matarazzos Scranton Quotes & Sayings

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. — Sophocles

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well. — Thomas Metzinger

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants. — Chuck Schumer

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs

I feel funny saying this, I'm not really a shoe shopper. I'm not going to go out and buy hundreds of pairs of shoes. I'm much more thoughtful than [Carrie] is, which is also one of the treats of playing her all these years. — Sarah Jessica Parker

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry. — Irving Layton

For I shall be far away, before these lines are read, in a place where no one will dream of coming to look for me. — Samuel Beckett

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Her mother had chosen the Welsh valley of Pant-y-Gyrdl as the ideal site to Return to Nature. (Six months later, sick of the rain, the mosquitoes, the men, the tent-trampling sheep who ate first the whole commune's marijuana crop and then its antique minibus, and by now beginning to glimpse why almost the entire drive of human history has been an attempt to get as far away from Nature as possible, Pepper's mother returned to Pepper's surprised grandparents in Tadfield, bought a bra, and enrolled in a sociology course with a deep sigh of relief.) — Terry Pratchett

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal. — William Jennings Bryan

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be. — Joyce Meyer

I used to go into pubs and people would want to pick a fight with me. I would hear a group of girls say: 'Oh look, there's Pat Cash.' And then one of them would come up to me and say, 'You think you're so good,' and throw a drink in my face. That kind of reaction from people was a bit of a shock initially, and you don't ever really get used to it. — Pat Cash

Being a Midwesterner, I know that many of the middle-class manufacturing jobs that had been at the heart of our economy are either gone or going, and they're not coming back. — Eli Broad

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. — Napoleon Hill

It's like compound interest with a turbocharger. — Gary Keller