Smaragdo Spalva Quotes & Sayings

So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls. — Michael Thomas Ford

It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it. — Emma Thompson

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want ... I'm not trying to make paintings look like photos. I want to make paintings using photos as a reference, the way painters did when photography was first invented. — Peter Doig

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about. — Shawn Johnson

People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job. — Dane Cook

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha. — Nhat Hanh

As consumers of culture, we are lulled into passivity or, at best, prodded toward a state of pseudo-semi-self-awareness, encouraged toward either the defensive group identity of fanhood or a shallow, half-ironic eclecticism. Meanwhile, as citizens of the political commonwealth, we are conscripted into a polarized climate of ideological belligerence in which bluster too often substitutes for argument. There is no room for doubt and little time — A.O. Scott

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth. — Peter Ustinov

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. — Larry Wall