Portella Steel Quotes & Sayings

Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. — Thomas Friedman

Ah Buddha, you boastful charlatan. You may have learned nothing after 6 years of suffering, but then what of 7 years? What of 17? What might you have learned from a lifetime of pain? [ ... ] From what I can tell, the wisest man in all these scriptures was the first person Buddha ever tried to teach - an Ajivika named Upaka. Buddha bragged to him of how he achieved nirvana, to which Upaka simply replied: "That may be so," and walked away. — Mark X.

Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film ... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the script. — Bruce Glover

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. — Rebecca Solnit

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian. — Umberto Eco

No matter what your race, creed or sexual preference, there is a word that people use to describe you that is very nasty. It's what we all have in common. That, and masturbation. — Jon Stewart

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show. — Freddie Mercury

You can turn ANYTHING negative
into the positive — Pattimari Sheets Cacciolfi

I don't fight for bragging rights. I've proved myself. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting. — Michelle Rodriguez

I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age. — Albert Einstein

It is rare to find an established community of Christians that encourages radical expressions of following Jesus. The natural conservatism of institutions is deeply rooted in the desire to survive, and that desire colors and limits the way they read the Bible and how they see God functioning in the world. — Michael Spencer

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book. — Anthony Burgess