Qaldevelebi Quotes & Sayings

The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind. — Merab Mamardashvili

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life. — Henry David Thoreau

I've lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it's smaller and smaller. I'm feeling great. I'm putting in the work. I'm getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. 'Dancing' is my priority. — Ricki Lake

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. — Walter Isaacson

If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series. — Elizabeth Duivenvoorde

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. — Ambrose Bierce

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess. — Sue Grafton

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing. — Sarah McLachlan

Disputing about those already made. I therefore never answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into the Italian, German, and Latin languages; and the doctrine it contain'd was by degrees universally adopted by the philosophers of Europe, in preference to that of the abbe; so that he lived to see himself the last of his sect, except Monsieur B
, of Paris, his eleve and immediate disciple. What gave my book the more sudden and general celebrity, was the success of one of its proposed experiments, made by Messrs. Dalibard and De Lor at Marly, for drawing — Benjamin Franklin

In those months I thought often of what I was trying to do, of how hard it is to keep alive someone who doesn't want to stay alive.

That was what I thought: that I would rather have him suffering and alive - than dead. — Hanya Yanagihara

Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned. — Nostradamus

I had never seen a Marvel comic. — Rene Russo

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely. — Aubrey De Grey