Obradovao Quotes & Sayings

He would wordlessly light up his pungent antiasthma cigarettes in the middle of class and debate openly with his mathematics and literature teachers about inaccuracies he's caught them in. — Jon Lee Anderson

Their reliance on biblical quotations does not augur well for their for their openness to moral reasoning ... — Peter Singer

You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more. — Anne Archer

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things. — Andrae Crouch

And I love Jane Austen's use of language too
the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and phrasing and structure. It's a fact: Jane Austen is musical. And so's Yeats. And Wordsworth. All the great writers are musical. — Andrew Clements

What if just you and I hung out, like last summer?" Nick sat up and began twirling a lock of my wet hair around his finger. "Josh never needs to know. — Dana Burkey

She would show HIM naughty... — Anne Taintor

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore. — Elvis Presley

The greatest artist does not have any concept
Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain
Within its excess, though only
A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right. — Federico Fellini

When we succeed in surviving strong emotions, we experience a more solid peace of mind. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. — George Orwell

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read. — Ken Stark

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human. — Steven Magee