Scintillare Dansstudio Quotes & Sayings

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.' — Bill Maher

CHAPTER XXXVI IS A VERY SHORT ONE, AND MAY APPEAR OF NO GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ITS PLACE. BUT IT SHOULD BE READ NOTWITHSTANDING, AS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST, AND A KEY TO ONE THAT WILL FOLLOW WHEN ITS TIME ARRIVES — Charles Dickens

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste. — Aaron Copland

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges. — Sam Taylor-Wood

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. — Alan Arkin

And let me make the radical statement that I don't believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet. — Bernie Sanders

What I remember most clearly is how it felt. I'd just finished painting a red fire engine-like the one I often walked past near my grandparents' house. Suddenly the teachers, whose names I've long forgotten, closed in on my desk. They seemed unusually impressed, and my still dripping fire engine was immediately and ceremoniously pinned up. I don't know what they might have said, but their unexpected attention and having something I'd made given a place of honor on the wall created an overwhelming and totally unfamiliar sense of pride inside me. I loved that feeling, and I wanted to feel it again and again. That desire, I suppose, was the beginning of my career.
I have no idea where my fire engine painting ended up, but I never forgot the basic layout. Several decades later, it served as the inspiration for this sketch for an illustration in a book called Why the chicken crossed the Road. — David Macaulay

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible. — Shannon Miller

Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination. — Swami Vivekananda

Goddamn it ! His parka doesn't fit me ! — Steve Roper

There have been many different phases and experiences in my life, which allow me to relate to many people in different ways. — Jai Uttal

The woman was finally done, and Beatrix reached for a magazine. There were always German magazines lying around here, Vogue was extremely rare; who wanted to read German magazines, anyway? Twin Murders in Stuttgart. Certainly an awful place, it even sounded like murder. Sex in Germany. That was probably even worse. — Ingeborg Bachmann

I realized that her life
her feelings for things
had been ruined
along the way
and that I was no more than a
temporary
companion — Charles Bukowski

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are. — David McCullough