Peterattia Blog Quotes & Sayings

It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener. — Natalie Cole

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden. — Jerry Van Amerongen

Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more? — Isaac Newton

What one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible ... — Laszlo Krasznahorkai

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ. — Budd Schulberg

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is more beauty in someone flawed than someone who sees themselves as perfect — Brian Michael Good

Our aspirations are our possibilities. — Robert Browning

Potential means you haven't done anything yet. — Bill Parcells

She is my companion on my many genealogical hunts, and I will be forever indebted to her for the knowledge that she bequeathed to me. And I can think of nobody I would rather traipse through a cemetery with, and that says a lot about a person. — Rett MacPherson

There is always a choice, even if the alternatives don't appear to be equal. — Garth Nix

Once outside, the detectives advanced up an escalator and to a floor with two elevators. One was labeled for the staff, and the other for guests. In the corner was a plain grey door which led up a staircase.
"Monsieur Leor ... " Jean began. "Are you up for a challenge?"
"You want to run up the staircase." Leor concluded, plainly. "Like schoolboys?"
"Ouais, monsieur," Jean replied, with a silly grin. "You can consider it your preliminary training, if that helps your dignity. — Zechariah Barrett