Priponi Quotes & Sayings

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. — Sam Walton

Some of these types, like the Persians and Ottoman Turks, are largely white; others, like the southern Indians and Yemenite Arabs, are largely black; while still others, like the Himalayan and Central Asian peoples, have much yellow blood. — T. Lothrop Stoddard

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done. — Dick Cheney

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world. — Henry Louis Gates

The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year. — Samuel Blumenfeld

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? — William Butler Yeats

Why would anyone kill for a book?" "It is not a book." The slap rung in his ears. "What is it?" "Knowledge." "And knowledge is power. Do you understand? — Elizabeth Hunter

I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. — Charlotte Bronte

It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other. — Craig Venter

This, to use an American term in which discovery, retribution, torture, death, eternity appear in the shape of a singularly repulsive nutshell, was it. — Vladimir Nabokov

Collecting has always been in my blood. — Walter Chrysler

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career. — Nora Ephron

He already knows I'm his binding mate since I've been appearing in his dreams too, but I'm not sure if he'll be able to contain his loathing for me. — Shannon Duffy

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action. — Graciela Chichilnisky

So much violence. If God existed, I'd have strangled him on the spot. Without batting an eyelid. And with all the fury of the damned. — Jean-Claude Izzo