Prodromos Borboroglu Quotes & Sayings

Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey — Steven Morrissey

I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last. — George C. Scott

It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies? — Martin Luther

Employing ... nutrition and vitamin therapy ... one of the nation's largest alcoholism treatment programs reports a 71% success rate. This contrasts with ... (a) national ... rate (of) 25% as reported by NIAAA. — Irwin Stone

A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife. — Hualing Nieh Engle

You must remember that fiction is the mirror of life. — Virginia Woolf

Whirs. See?" Heidi grabbed the string and pulled. The snail toppled over. "No, not like that," Vanja said. "I'll show you." She placed the snail upright and slowly dragged it a few meters. "I've got a little sister!" she said aloud. Robin had gone to the window where he stood staring out into the backyard. Stella, who was energetic and presumably extra-lively since it was her party, excitedly shouted something that I didn't understand, pointed to one of the two smaller girls, who handed her the doll she was clutching, took out a little carriage, placed the doll in it, and began to push it down the hall. Achilles had found his way to Benjamin, a boy eighteen months older than Vanja, who usually sat deeply absorbed in something, a drawing or a pile of Legos or a pirate ship with plastic pirates. He was imaginative, independent, and well-behaved, — Karl Ove Knausgard

Words aren't meant to be kept inside, you see. They are free creatures, and if locked away will unsettle the stomach. — Brandon Sanderson

Life after 35 should be lit by the flames of passion. Extinguish the fire that burns the candle of your life at both ends. — Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself. — Henry Rollins

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right. — Phyllis Diller

I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care. — Colin Powell

She taught me that I deserved her. And in return, I took her away from the man who didn't. — Elizabeth Finn

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down. — Michael Moriarty

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder. — Carl Sagan