Sismologico Quotes & Sayings

A man in the skyscraper needs to feed a pigeon from his window to remember what great thing missing in his life: The touch of nature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What's insane is a ten percent levy on baked goods. You do realize the Revolutionary war began on less than two percent. How is the public not flocking to the streets in outrage? We must do something. — Ichabod

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not. — Saint Augustine

In Maya's group, the "executive branch," everyone is talking at once. Maya hangs back. Samantha, tall and plump in a purple T-shirt, takes charge. She pulls a sandwich bag from her knapsack and announces, "Whoever's holding the plastic bag gets to talk!" The students pass around the bag, each contributing a thought in turn. They remind me of the kids in The Lord of the Flies civic-mindedly passing around their conch shell, at least until all hell breaks loose. — Susan Cain

Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic." — A.A. Milne

The beauty and magnitude of a diva's voice resides, so the iconography suggests, in her deformity. Her voice is beautiful because she herself is not-and her ugliness is interpreted as a sign of moral and social deviance. Reading biographies of divas, I can't ignore the repeated references to physical flaws-for example, Benedetta Pisaroni's "features horribly disfigured by small-pox," prompting spectators to shut their eyes "so as to hear without being condemned to see." Audiences speculated that Maria Malibran was not anatomically a woman, but an androgyne or hermaphrodite-an aberrant physique to match her voice's magic power. — Wayne Koestenbaum

But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always be sensible for yourself. — Alex Shearer

Blood brothers in desperation
Oath of silence for the voice of a generation — Fall Out Boy

You can have fun, respect the game and also play it hard. When you have that combination, you're going to put yourself in a position to be successful. — Alex Rodriguez

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity. — David Frum

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. — Barbara Bush

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation. — Marianne Williamson

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. — Epictetus

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else — Lemony Snicket

Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there. — Lee Brice