Sotio Quotes & Sayings

In some circles emptiness is even made a goal to be sought after, under the guise of being "adaptable." Nowhere is this illustrated more arrestingly than in an article in Life Magazine entitled "The Wife Problem."* Summarizing a series of researches which first appeared in Fortune about the role of the wives of corporation executives, this article points out that whether or not the husband is promoted depends a great deal on whether his wife fits the "pattern." Time was when only the minister's wife was looked over by the trustees of the church before her husband was hired; now the wife of the corporation executive is screened, covertly or overtly, by most companies like the steel or wool or any other commodity the company uses. She must be highly gregarious, not intellectual or conspicuous, and she must have very "sensitive antennae" (again that radar set!) so that she can be forever adapting. — Rollo May

You know what's worse than being in rehab? Being in rehab over the holidays. You know what's worse than that? Being in a rehab that doesn't allow smoking. I mean, what the fuck? Addicts smoke. If we can't drink, we can't shoot up, and we can't ride the lightning bolt, at least we can smoke. — Darrell Hammond

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews. — Steven Spielberg

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story. — Isak Dinesen

What if I don't like adventure?
Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow. — Wally Lamb

Stupid blind Russian wizard," I swore softly. "I'm getting a raise out of this somehow. — Vicki Keire

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? — Blaise Pascal

I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow. — Brian Spellman

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know? — Corbin Bernsen

When we set our hearts upon the things of this world and fail to be strictly honest with the Lord, we do not grow in the light and power and strength of the gospel as we otherwise would do. — Heber J. Grant