Operatic Sopranos Quotes & Sayings

To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality - not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting. — Justin Cronin

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. — Spike Lee

Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there's a star called Aldebaran? And that around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky ant night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars? — Elizabeth Enright

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it. — David F. D'Alessandro

When you think of things like The Sopranos, The Wire, Damages, they are beating film on a regular basis. Most films are terrible. It's only the 2% that are good. There's things you can do on TV which you can't do on film. There is something about those episodic, serialisations that are grand and operatic. — Ricky Gervais

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices — Warren Buffett

She hadn't meant to do it. Falling this crashingly in love with Spencer didn't take Lily by accident. It took her by storm. — Paullina Simons

We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth. — Joan D. Chittister

It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars. — Mark Ruffalo

We are - or were - Divinities, Shara Komayd: we drew power from the hearts and minds and beliefs of a people. But that which you draw power from, you are also powerless before ... A people believe in a god ... and the god tells them what to believe. — Robert Jackson Bennett

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out. — Charlotte Eriksson

a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking'. — Mallanaga Vatsyayana

One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it. — Michael Moore

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others. — Kevin Kwan

What we see here (and in our lives) is that love inspires what the law demands - the law prescribes good works, but only grace can produce them. Gratitude, generosity, honesty, compassion, acts of mercy, and self-sacrifice (all requirements of the law) spring unsummoned from a forgiven heart. This is how God works on us. He picks us, the least deserving, out of the crowd, insists upon being in a relationship with us, and creates in us a new heart, miraculously capable of pleasing Him. — Tullian Tchividjian