Morticia And Gomez Addams Quotes & Sayings

It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship. — Barry Hughart

Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty drums make the loudest noise." Grandfather often repeated this phrase to indicate that those with the least understanding are the most arrogant. — Arun Gandhi

You don't have to be rich to save the world. — Philani Dladla

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.
Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams
like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams. — David Mamet

Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe. — Rita Gelman

While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal ... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power. — Debashis Chatterjee

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity. — Gioachino Rossini

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth. — Zora Neale Hurston

LORD God, please give us grace to obey thy great laws. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Help anyway you can and don't turn away from people who help you. — Ann Marie Aguilar

I don't mind my wife having to last word. In fact I'm delighted when she reaches it. — Walter Matthau

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air. — Larry Constantine

I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all, it's probably the only group as a country we all study and know the history and then never study again past the age of 10. So I think we have these things we believe are true, that are just not true about what an audience wants. — Soledad O'Brien