Niezapominajka Quotes & Sayings

I can be greedy, desirous or an irritating materialist, but again, I am not a stupid. — M.F. Moonzajer

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given — William Ames

I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi, never "the hoi polloi," because hoi meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant
indeed something only hoi polloi would say. — Anne Fadiman

Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient. — Patrick Kavanagh

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. — Richard E. Byrd

How can you not be concerned that I might have cancer?" I ask. "I found a lump on my breast." Touch it, Ely. Touch it. "Lie. Not only are you biting your lip, which you always do when you lie, but your mom told me about the alleged lump in the elevator this morning. The doctor said it was an overgrown pimple." Monkeys! — Rachel Cohn

I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems ... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally. — Madonna Ciccone

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor. — Julian Sands

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s. — Jay Parini