Pirani Life Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you can't wait for the rest of your life to come to you. You have to go to it. Or at least meet it half way. — Gerry Pirani

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone. — Questlove

it's worth repeating that for most investors, selecting individual stocks is unnecessary - if not inadvisable. The fact that most professionals do a poor job of stock picking does not mean that most amateurs can do better. The vast majority of people who try to pick stocks learn that they are not as good at it as they thought; the luckiest ones discover this early on, while the less fortunate take years to learn it. A small percentage of investors can excel at picking their own stocks. Everyone else would be better off getting help, ideally through an index fund. — Benjamin Graham

A loaded gun
deadly, easy to reach, impossible to ignore. — Rick Riordan

You cannot finish a sum how you like. But you can finish a story how you like. — G.K. Chesterton

One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized — Amit Abraham

There will be no proof that I ever was a writer. — Franz Kafka

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness! — Ram Dass

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it. — Karl Lagerfeld

There isn't any such thing as being your own boss in this world unless you're a tramp, and then there's the constable. — George Horace Lorimer

When I first started watching Godzilla, I was a kid and a big dinosaur freak and was like, "Oh my gosh, there's a big dinosaur." So I immediately got into Godzilla. What I like about it are some of the things people often think are negative aspects. — Brad Warner

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says. — Brandon Lee