Pivarnicka Quotes & Sayings

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will ... The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated. — Voltaire

"We have a nice connection," he said, and I thought of USB ports. — Andy Sinclair

If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue! — Mark Gorman

Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping. — Diane Paulus

Finally, power-law distributions have "thick tails," meaning that they have a nonnegligible number of extreme values. You will never meet a 20-foot man, or see a car driving down the freeway at 500 miles per hour. But you could conceivably come across a city of 14 million, or a book that was on the bestseller list for 10 years, or a moon crater big enough to see from the earth with the naked eye - or a war that killed 55 million people. — Steven Pinker

Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are. — Pope John Paul II

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. — Clarence Budington Kelland

There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD! — Eddie Izzard

Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable. — Rick Riordan

Without the leaders building the tribe, a culture of mediocrity will prevail. Without an inspired tribe, leaders are impotent. — Dave Logan

During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An idea will hit me and I'll write it down. Then, when I'm ready to write, I check my little matchbooks and napkins and find that it is good or it's pretty terrible. There are other times when I don't have any ideas and I'll go into a room and close the door and I sit and sweat it out for a day or a month and eventually I come up with [something]. — Woody Allen

But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite right too. You give birth to them. You do not design them. — Penelope Lively

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? — Alan Moore

The answers were maddeningly absent - it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back. — Jennifer Egan

Margaritas are my favorite. And my fiance makes them just perfect. — Garance Dore