Samoilova Tvrdina Quotes & Sayings

America can't beat anyone anymore. — George Clooney

Would it not be wiser, then, to remit this part of reading and to allow the critics, the gowned and furred authorities of the library, to decide the question of the book's absolute value for us? Yet how impossible! We may stress the value of sympathy; we may try to sink our identity as we read. But we know that we cannot sympathise wholly or immerse ourselves wholly; there is always a demon in us who whispers, "I hate, I love", and we cannot silence him. Indeed, it is precisely because we hate and we love that our relation with the poets and novelists is so intimate that we find the presence of another person intolerable. And even if the results are abhorrent and our judgments are wrong, still our taste, the nerve of sensation that sends shocks through us, is our chief illuminant; we learn through feeling; we cannot suppress our own idiosyncrasy without impoverishing it. — Virginia Woolf

Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference. — Bruce Mau

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and political lives, one in which we are compelled to take stock of our interdependence. — Judith Butler

I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law. — John Heilemann

If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday. — Sophia Bush

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. — Gautama Buddha

This is all I have - her words. Words...feelings caught in time. — Stevie J. Cole

Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates. — Marie Winn

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything. — Luciano Pavarotti

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work. — Dave Van Ronk

Pareidolia. They heard whispering voices in the radio pulses of Jupiter or Saturn. — Paul McAuley

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? — Jules Verne