Smaranda Stirbu Quotes & Sayings

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted. — Leo Rosten

I grew up as an only child. I think it might just be that my dad really didn't care that I was a girl. "You're gonna do certain things 'cause I want you to, and that's the way it is." — Mitchell Baker

But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history, and since sensation is a reconstitution, it pre-supposes in me sediments left behind by some previous constitution, so that I am, as a sentient subject, a repository stocked with natural powers at which I am the first to be filled with wonder. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage. — Stewart Brand

It wasn't the loneliness of command that was bothering him. It was the being-fried-alive of command that was giving him problems. He — Terry Pratchett

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting. — Ice-T

Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud — Alice Hoffman

I think it's important to balance out what people see today as normal birth, in a hospital room, flat on their backs, usually with an IV and a fetal monitor hooked up to them. That does happen, but other things are possible. — Ricki Lake

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life. — Ed O'Brien

My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy yourself at every stage. — Hiromi

It's always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special. — Buddy Rice

I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever. — Gisele Bundchen

I have very girly hands and I use them a lot when I talk in a way that I think is very feminine. — Janet McTeer

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity. — Derrick Jensen

It's not just in my industry ... everything is so sensationalized that there's not a lot of heart and soul in a lot of things there used to be heart and soul in. — Kenny Chesney