Piela Electric Quotes & Sayings

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. — Daniel Dennett

That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other. — Michael Lewis

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star. — Katharine Hepburn

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going. — Kathryn Bigelow

What made you so unforgiving? (Simone)
Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you'll always be ignorant. (Xypher) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The whirlwind of life
It was true. Sometimes life was like that, a wonderful whirlwind that fills us with joy, like a ride on a merry-go-round when we are children. A whirlwind of love and drunkenness when you sleep in someones arms, in a tiny bed, getting up for breakfast at midday because you've spent the morning making love. But sometimes a whirlwind destroys things, like a violent typhoon that tries to drag us down, when we have been caught by the storm, when we realize that we have to face the tempest alone. And we are afraid. — Guillaume Musso

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. — Claudius Claudianus

Charles. Oh, your voices, your voices. Why don't the voices come to me? I am king, not you!

Joan. They do come to you, but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for them. When the angelus rings, you cross yourself and have done with it. But if you prayed from your heart and listened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after they stopped ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do. — George Bernard Shaw

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn. — Carlos Gracie Jr.

You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company. — Steve Wozniak

Which choice do you think is easier? One that comes with a threat? Or one that comes from love? — Dan Skinner

Just this whole journey [of life] has been a blessing from God, so for me to be here [on Earth] I'm just taking it one day at a time and really enjoying it. — Jeremy Lin

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment. — David Edelstein

TV is the only medium that I've ever been successful with in delivering really emotional messaging and I think as people are trying to work their way through what this changing environment is going to mean, playing to the emotional side as well as the pragmatic and the rational side is going to be something that a number of brands will want to fully explore. — Jill McDonald