Samothrace Victory Quotes & Sayings

I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it. — Chet Faker

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness ... — Jack Kerouac

These people are like sheep, if you were to ask them, who would like hepatitis, they are all going to cheer. — Santino Marella

If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea. — Greek Proverb

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. — John Hench

Karl and Marthe held the embossed card gingerly. It was Hitler's 1941 Christmas card, a photo of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, an ancient Greek statue the Wehrmacht had taken from the Louvre. His greeting was printed: Our Winged Victory. Beneath that was a scrawl with only the A and H legible. "He . . . touched this," Marthe said. Her hands shook, nearly dropping the card. — Gregory Benford

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. — Oscar Wilde

If you ask me, I think Jerry Springer destroyed the public image of the USA. I mean up to early in the nineties I still imagined it like it was presented in hollywoodfilms and stuff. But then, early in the 90's they started broadcasting that freakshow in the Netherlands, and that new idea of entertainment, where you put the biggest morons you can find on screen so you can watch it and feel superior. Later on, politics also discovered the same formula. We want politicians we feel superior to. The very idea of anything being 'better' or 'higher' than us makes people extremely uncomfortable. — Martijn Benders

Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad. — Tom Hayden

Look, Daniel, at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is manure — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It doesn't matter," said Adrian, smiling. He rested a hand on my shoulder. "Some things are worth the trouble. — Richelle Mead

I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods. — Monica Denise Brown

No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life ... until you have a child in your life. — Sandra Bullock

Deep down, he's shallow. — Peter De Vries

the church community is a hospital for recovering addicts to selfishness. — Winfield Bevins

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace. — Edward Weston

We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath...a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. — F. T. Marinetti