Postcard Peter Skrzynecki Quotes & Sayings

Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass. — Roberto Mancini

My beloved Eudosia [a member of Buckley's household staff], who is Cuban, very large, quite old, and altogether superstitious, and speaks only a word or two of English (even though she has been with us for 19 years), is quite certain that the gentleman who raped the 16-year-old girl in New Caanan three years ago and escaped has successfully eluded the police only because of his resourceful determination to ravage Eudosia before he dies. Accordingly she demanded, and I gave her, a shotgun, into which I have inserted two empty shells. Still, Eudosia with blank cartridges is more formidable than Eugene McCarthy with The Bomb. — William F. Buckley Jr.

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid. — Seth MacFarlane

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. — Muso Soseki

Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a 'we must do something universe,' it is a 'we must be serious universe!' Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, 'waiting' must be abolished! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith — Horace

Every new day
Our children's joy is as fresh as roses,
Even the birds chatter at dawn. — Scott Hastie

Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are scalpels that allow us to operate on those perceptions. — Mike Carey

Sugar is not a vegetable. — Gertrude Stein

In all this noise and confusion, she felt a sharp longing now to be anywhere but here. Even though she often dreaded the night falling when she was in her own house, at least she was alone and could control what she did. The silence and the solitude were a strange relief; she wondered if things were getting better at home without her noticing. — Colm Toibin

All the quiet corners of the world are the great temples for the wise and for the wisdom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One ought to know everything, to write. All of us scribblers are monstrously ignorant. If only we weren't lacking in stamina, what a rich field of ideas and similes we could tap! Books that have been the source of entire literatures, like Homer and Rabelais, contain the sum of all the knowledge of their times. They knew everything, those fellows, and we know nothing. — Gustave Flaubert

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment. — Abraham Maslow

'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome. — William Penn