Ossidiana Wine Quotes & Sayings

Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world
for us. — Roger Dawson

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline. — Maria Montessori

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine. — Chaim Potok

Very few politicians, who have chosen a political career, can fulfill the aspirations and survive the strains of an elevated office that in a monarchy was filled so randomly. Each tsar had to be simultaneously dictator and supreme general, high priest and Little Father. They required all the qualities listed by the sociologist Max Weber: the personal gift of grace, the virtue of legality, and the authority of the eternal yesterday. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children. — Rick Warren

I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces. — Paul Lansky

He pushed the thought into a mental closet. It was a thing he was good at. There was all sorts of stuff in that closet. — Stephen King

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. — Norman Vincent Peale

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery. — Ed Wood

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life. — Edsger Dijkstra

High in a turret of a great castle rising on a black crag above snowy plains, besieged and grand, crammed full of an empire's treasure, and he sitting by a log fire with a sad and lovely princess ... I used to dream about such things, he thought. I used to long for them, ache for them. They seemed the very stuff of life, its essence. So why does all this taste of ashes? — Iain M. Banks

The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle. — Jorge Luis Borges

Three years in jail is a good corrective for three years at Harvard. — Alger Hiss

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life. — Bjorn Borg

Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be. — Michelle Yeoh