Mostropi Quotes & Sayings

when you're the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they've let you go. — New York Times

In a man's attachment to life there is something stronger than all the ills in the world. — Albert Camus

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox. — Terry Tempest Williams

I've had seven balls of light come off a UFO ... explain to me telepathically we are all one and there's no such thing as death. — Bill Hicks

If we didn't kill the tumor, we killed the patient. - William Moloney on the early days of chemotherapy — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon. — Mason Cooley

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm — Abraham Lincoln

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all. — Judy Grahn

Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams. — James Franco

Whether I sign a bill or not, is generally an expression of my personal view on the subject.
It's not an interpretation of an existing law. — George Deukmejian

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. — David Hackworth

People don't change. Things do. — Boris Vian

So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion. — Stephen Hawking