Salmanovova Quotes & Sayings

Magazines devoted to the religion of success appear as Makers of America. They mean just about that when they preach evolution, progress, prosperity, being constructive, the American way of doing things. It is easy to laugh, but, in fact, they are using a very great pattern of human endeavor. For one thing it adopts an impersonal criterion; for another it adopts an earthly criterion; for a third it is habituating men to think quantitatively. To be sure the idea confuses excellence with size, happiness with speed, and human nature with contraption. Yet the same motives are at work which have ever actuated any moral code, or ever will. The desire fir the biggest, the fastest, the highest, or if you are a maker of wristwatches or microscopes the smallest; the love in short of the superlative and the "peerless," is in essence and possibility a noble passion. — Walter Lippmann

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore. — Diana Vreeland

Sometime whispering's okay but maybe you'd feel better if you screamed today. — Kimya Dawson

To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day. — Charlotte Bronte

The superstitious belief, common to miners, that gnomes or fiends dwell within the bowels of the earth, began to seize me. I shuddered at the thought of descending further and braving the inhabitants of this nether valley. Nor indeed could I have done so without ropes, as from the spot I had reached to the bottom of the chasm the sides of the rock sank down abrupt, smooth, and sheer. I retraced my steps with some difficulty. Now I have told you all. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I put on the first Matrix movie, because it's something light. — Jo Raven

Jimmy Snuka stood up, 25 feet in the air, drove his knee through my ribs, but did I allow them to carry me out on a strecher? NO! I got right up and walked out! — Don Muraco

It's not what you know; it's not even who you know; it's what you implement that counts. — Brian P. Moran

In order to bring out the best in people, you need to give them your best. — Omar Suleiman

Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life? — Bill Willingham

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement. — James Wolcott