Parlasul Quotes & Sayings

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross! — George Arnold

Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing. — John McWhorter

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. — Kofi Annan

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. — Napoleon Bonaparte

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous. — Paul Russell

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. — T. S. Eliot

A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness. — Paul Theroux

Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion. — Norman Reedus

The biggest mistake young designers make is that they try to make their advertising look like advertising — Jeff Goodby

I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover. — Leona Lewis

Magic, like Photoshop, can do just about anything ... but you have to learn how to use it. — Clinton Boomer