Pikulina Quotes & Sayings

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now. — Billy Graham

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand. — Joshua Reynolds

Today, I want to talk about Social Security and how all of us can ensure that one of the greatest achievements of this century continues to serve our people well into the next ... For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values - our respect fr our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity. — William J. Clinton

The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when works which were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their power, and works, before neglected, emerge into renown. — George Henry Lewes

You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them. — Michael Pitt

You're not my boss, Alan." He returned to his game. Honestly, my first instinct was to smack the kid, but i doubted that would fly with his parents. — Richard Paul Evans

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around. — Cybill Shepherd

When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being is pulled towards the world. He struggles against it. He becomes divided. Half of his being is for the world and half has become greedy for the other. He is torn apart. A monk is basically a schizophrenic, a split person, divided into the lower and the higher. And the lower goes on pulling him, and the lower becomes more and more attractive the more it is repressed. And because he has not lived the lower, he cannot get into the higher. — Rajneesh

I felt truly happy for the first time in years. Such moments should be logged and noted. — William Boyd

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way. — Scott Pelley

When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic. — Michael Hyatt

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives. — Isadora Duncan

I always smoke 'ship's' myself," I answered. "That's — Arthur Conan Doyle

He said he would not yield his judgment to anything proposed by the Church, or any individuals of the Church, or even the Great I Am, given through the appointed organ, as revelation, but would always act upon his own judgment, let him believe in whatever religion he might. He stated he would always say what he pleased, for he was a Republican, and as such would do, say, act, and believe what he pleased.
Mark such republicanism as this! A man to oppose his own judgment to the judgment of God, and at the same time to profess to believe in that same God, who has said: "The foolishness of God is wiser than man; and the weakness of God is stronger, than man."
[DHC3:66] — Joseph Smith Jr.

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! — Dave Barry