Miryana Popovic Quotes & Sayings

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses. — Amos Bronson Alcott

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society — Marcel Duchamp

Subtle? How is getting down on your knees and begging subtle?" "I could make it subtle, — Madeleine Urban

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy. — Bill Maher

The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together. — Alex Gansa

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment ... — James Gleick

Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my own devising, making things, experimenting, and planning for the future. I had read of Thomas Alva Edison and other successful inventors, and the idea of making an invention appealed to me as one of the few available means to accomplish a change in one's economic status, while at the same time bringing to focus my interest in technical things and making it possible to make a contribution to society as well. — Chester Carlson

I love myself for all my mistakes and missteps. They have been very valuable to me. They have taught me many things. It is the way I learn. I am willing to stop punishing myself for my mistakes. — Louise Hay

X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require. — Marcus Aurelius

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for. — Homer

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being. — Margaret Sanger

Adeline had moved to San Francisco in 1996, which was a defining moment in the city's history. 1996 was not defined by Adeline's arrival.

1996 as defined by being the year during which the Internet economy exploded into the collective consciousness.

San Francisco had spent much of the Twentieth Century in decline, which meant that it was a bad place for people who liked doing business but a wonderful place for people who were terrible at making money.

San Francisco had been defined by the culture of people who were terrible at making money. It had become a haven for the misfits of America most of who were living in the city's fabulous old houses.

When the Internet economy exploded into the collective consciousness, these people proved that resisting social change was the only thing at which they were less adept than earning money. — Jarett Kobek

Once, she came face-to-face with a heavyset man wearing a hooded short cloak. They came level with each other under one of the infrequent lanterns and she could make out only the lower half of his face. The upper half was shaded by the hood. She had an impression of a dark, full beard. In the shadow of his hood, his eyes were unblinking, staring at her. — John Flanagan