Spiacevole Quotes & Sayings

Sir Isaac Newton famously said that he had achieved everything by standing on the shoulders of giants - the scientific men whose findings he built upon. The same might be said about silicon. After germanium did all the work, silicon became an icon, and germanium was banished to periodic table obscurity. — Sam Kean

I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. — Kristen Stewart

The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him. — Donna Woolfolk Cross

I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them. — Vic Tayback

Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of your friends. — Bram Stoker

Happiness is just a priest who reads us words of consolation while we walk up the steps to the hangman. — William H Gass

Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily. — Pope John Paul II

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald. — Julia Glass