Planches Bankirai Quotes & Sayings

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end. — Jon Landau

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain. — Benjamin Disraeli

In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. — Garry Trudeau

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport. — Naomi Benaron

The soldiers kill suicide bombers. Think about that. When a guys whole thing in life is to kill himself and you get there first ... you are halling ass my friends. — Dennis Miller

You don't need to travel, laughter is an instant vacation — Milton Berle

she was practicing a skill that both her parents had acquired as children, a way of maintaining a substitute life — Tom Piazza

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important. — Giovanni Ribisi

Surely we want to get to a point where women can be strong and powerful and not sexy. Or only sexy when they feel like it, not as a requirement to getting media coverage or being valued. — Anna Kessel

For an instant Stile was daunted by the improbability of it all: a man, a cyborg, a robot, an animalhead, and a wooden golem, all riding unicorns through a battlefield strewn with goblins and dragons, pursuing an invaluable ball of power-rock that rolled along a channel cleared by plastic explosive. What a mishmash! — Piers Anthony

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program. — Pauline Kael

The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself. — Arjuna Ardagh

But it is not reason that governs love. — Moliere

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out. — William Howard Taft