Smaragdgrn Quotes & Sayings

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test. — Margaret George

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him ... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love. — Salman Rushdie

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself. — Hailee Steinfeld

To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ... — John C. Calhoun

That was the moment when he grasped that nobody wanted to use their minds. People wanted peace. They wanted to eat and sleep and have other people be nice to them. What they didn't want to do was think. — Daniel Kehlmann

Knowledge is not enough. It never is. It's the capacity to do something with that knowledge. To do it perfectly. Absolute timing. With devastating consequences. — Steven Erikson

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask. — Deepak Chopra

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader. — Mark Pincus

There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists, — Annaleigh Ashford

I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each. — Stephen Fry

I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I'd met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn't see me avoiding it in the grocery store. — Kim Harrison

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. — Joseph Hall

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz) — Marcel Duchamp

I am happy to have love in my heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions. — Helen Fisher