Patsalos Quotes & Sayings

During the investigation, he tried a brief defense of his medical practice on the grounds that he had once assisted a vivisectionist in Tampa, Florida; and when this failed, he settled down to sullen grumbling about the Jews, earthly vanity, and quoted bits from Ecclesiastes, Alfonso Liguori, and Pope Pius IX, in answer to any accusatory question. — William Gaddis

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work. — William Eggleston

When I met her she was Anna Mae. I was the one who turned her into Tina Turner. I had to tell her how to dress, how to walk and how to talk on stage. I told her how to stand and how to look, the whole thing, man, I mean from the wig down. — Ike Turner

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Difficult situations create exploitable opportunities for those strong enough to persevere. — Chad Bowen

Don't you watch any cop shows?" Logan asked. "You're supposed to wait until I've made sure there are no guys with submachine guns and machetes waiting in the shadows."
"Was that a joke?" Zak asked — Barbara Elsborg

Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

India riding on MS Dhoni wave, Dhoni is a different man in World Cups — Ian Chappell

Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will. — Vladimir Lenin

We can't get them to come to their senses until we get their names."
"I doubt it will be that simple."
"Oh, because I thought tracking down the names of six anonymous girls when we have no idea where they're from would be a piece of cake. — Kiersten White

You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops. — Carlos Slim

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate. — Ben Crenshaw

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds. — Fernand Braudel

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans. — Delia Smith

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go? — William, Saroyan