Smedley Massa Quotes & Sayings

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct ... — Sigmund Freud

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training. — Jack Kornfield

I'm completely alone in the world; it frightens me to be so empty and lost. — Henrik Ibsen

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad. — Catherynne M Valente

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. — Nicholas D. Kristof

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly. — Ba Jin

[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living. — Sally Stanford

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.' — Megan Hilty

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak. — Charles Caleb Colton

Art should be concerned more with life than with art. — Kimon Nicolaides

The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes. — Will Rogers

They were only to glad to come, ... as an alibi to test their charms ... but once they'd made it into the house their hearts where in their boots because they knew enough to see that here Madame Verona was still living off the interest. — Dimitri Verhulst

Part of the concept of the euro zone was to establish a common market. The banks were going to bank across all their countries like we bank across states. But that concept got killed for a whole bunch of reasons that I won't get into. That was a good concept, by the way. It may yet return, because there are huge economies of scale in banking. That's another thing people don't quite get. — Jamie Dimon

I got involved in 2003, 2004, with a company called Dance4Life out of Holland. — Tiesto

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you. — Terry Bradshaw