Odustanem Quotes & Sayings

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.' — Robert De Niro

I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me. — Muhammad Yunus

Now, as Global Ambassador for Starlight Children's Foundation, which brightens the lives of poorly children, I visit hospitals and tell stories to the young patients. Sometimes I read. Sometimes I draw. — Tony DiTerlizzi

A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. — Colin Wilson

Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr. [ ... ] Almost all cats make us feel good about ourselves because they let us know they feel good about us, about themselves, and about our relationship with them. A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is a reinforcement of soemthing we would all like to believe about ourselves
that we are nice. — Roger A. Caras

There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. This is the way He dealt with me at the time. It was like a bad dream. — Hermann Hesse

Exploration is a quite legitimate purpose for a journey. You have the opportunity to learn the territories of the Upper and Lower Worlds and their assets, which you can employ as needed in the future. — Sandra Harner

Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un. — Marian Burros

I realized my predicament early in my First Year. We don't say "Freshman" or "Senior" etc. at UVA because Mr. Jefferson felt that education is a lifelong process — Tina Fey

The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad. — Paulo Coelho

Because you may not love the candy-man, but you do love the candy. — Stephen King

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before. — Kenneth E. Boulding

And rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known. — Irving Stone

I never really look too far ahead, to be honest. — Casey Stoner