Soperton Quotes & Sayings

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective. — Paul Farmer

If Checker Charley was out to make chumps out of men, he could damn well fix his own connections. Paul looks after his own circuits; let Charley do the same. Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis." He gathered up the bills from the table. "Good night. — Kurt Vonnegut

Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards. — Douglas Adams

Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction. — Jorge Luis Borges

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. — Marco Tempest

Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness, of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment ... the contentment of the quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is slavery self-sought and self-defended. It is dullness made God. A savorless people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world. — Sinclair Lewis

The only store where visitors can officially buy alcohol without a licence is at the Barracuda Beach Resort — Lonely Planet

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada. — Stephen Harper

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. — Mordecai Richler

And my arms will be wide open to catch you. Always. — Lorelei James

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater. — David Cook

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours. — Sophia Loren