Silouan Justiniano Quotes & Sayings

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
("Talking In The Dark") — Dennis Etchison

The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end. — Warren Buffett

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. — Orson Welles

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.' — Josh Radnor

If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful? — Eric Sink

You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything. — Alexandra Bracken

The greatest gift you can ever give yourself is a mind of your own. — Joel T. McGrath

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury. — Vladimir Potanin

Wasn't it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure! — Jostein Gaarder

It's hard not to feel guilty when starving people bring you food. — Liesl Shurtliff

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles. — Harold E. Varmus