Rostkowski Road Quotes & Sayings

There's more to life than football, right? — Fabrice Muamba

My dad was my best friend. I worshipped him. All of my success in life really comes from him. He believed that you get nothing from negativity. — Stephen J. Cannell

Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

People should be entrusted with their own lives. People must be independent in every respect. No one should own anything. Property should be free like people are. The roads should not belong to any one person, in order to stop someone from collecting tolls from travelers. A priest shouldn't take a toll for prayers. A farmhand shouldn't take a toll for the fruits of the earth. The phone company shouldn't take a toll for conversations. Totally free of charge, like the fetus's time inside the mother continues to be after its birth. — Kristin Omarsdottir

WHAT IN THE WORLD, Wimsey, are you doing in this Morgue? demanded Captain Fentiman, flinging aside the Evening Banner with the air of a man released from an irksome duty. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country ... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it. — John Cameron Mitchell

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else. — Douglas Kennedy

The way cats lose bits of fur when you pet them thoroughly. — Erin Morgenstern

I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one. — Trombone Shorty

Primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history - and that current generations had to deny any command for sacrifice. Sol had written that whatever God now took in human consciousness - whether as a mere manifestation of the subconscious in all its revanchist needs or as a more conscious attempt at philosophical and ethical evolution - humankind could no longer agree to offer up sacrifice in God's name. Sacrifice and the agreement to sacrifice had written human history in blood. — Dan Simmons

Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn't a question of if; it's a question of when. — Ben Feldman

In a country like America there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse. — John Amaechi

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps. — Harold Macmillan

I never look in the rearview mirror. — Peter Guber

Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count. — Jon Kabat-Zinn