Pianure Liguria Quotes & Sayings

I'm not about to cede control to Fate, waiting around for Mr. Right to show up on my doorstep. — Julie James

I didn't think I'd be going for another Olympics. — Misty May-Treanor

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. — Napoleon Hill

If so many people love me, how come I'm alone? — Doris Day

To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained, but they still need advice about producers and collaborations and single choice. They need an army and a perspective and creative friction, because nobody has all the ideas. — Tom Corson

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. — Will Oldham

The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a vist to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the cored. This wasn't the tame world of overgrown orchards and sun-dappled paths that passed for wilderness in suburban Concord, Massachusetts, but a forbiggind, oppressive, primeval country that was "grim and wild ... savage and dreary," fit only for "men nearer of kin to the rocks and wild animals than we." The experience left him, in the words of one biographer, "near hysterical. — Bill Bryson

Imagine if our churches were known for being communities of Jesus-centered happiness, overflowing with the sheer gladness of what it means to live out the good news of great joy. Imagine if our children brought their friends to church and their comment was, "Those people seem so nice . . . and happy. — Randy Alcorn

Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love. — Gregory Of Nyssa

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium. — Don Ameche

I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person. — B.o.B

I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding. — Douglas Coupland

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing. — James MacArthur