Montalbanos Staten Quotes & Sayings

A jury verdict is just a guess - a well-intentioned guess, generally, but you simply cannot tell fact from fiction by taking a vote. — William Landay

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself. — Joel Henry Hildebrand

My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'. — Joseph Henry Blackburne

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. — Reid Hoffman

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life. — Tracy McMillan

I'm not one of those to say Kyoto is not worth the paper it's printed on. — Hermann E. Ott

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion. — Radhanath Swami

It's not that I don't care," said Robin. "It's just that I don't want to know."

She knew too much already. This was real life, kicking her in the face, and she wanted nothing to do with it. — Jami Attenberg

Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half. — Jeanine Basinger

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. — John Ruskin

If you want to make the best of yourself, you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff. — Trinny Woodall

Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough. — Tana French

It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window. — Sam Harris

If people are engaged, eventually the political system responds, despite the money, despite the lobbyists, it still responds.
~ President Obama — Chris Smith