Stamparatus Quotes & Sayings

Pointless to question the sanity of it. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

That's how memories work, I suppose; you just go through life collecting them, never letting go of the precious ones but leaving room in your heart for more. — Dan Gemeinhart

[I]t is remarkable how much sheer bullshit seems to accrete around the subject of barbecue. No other kind of cooking comes even close. Exactly why, I'm not sure, but it may be that cooking over fire is so straightforward that the people who do it feel a need to baste the process in thick layers of intricacy and myth. It could also be that barbecue is performed disproportionately by self-dramatizing men. — Michael Pollan

I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way. — Chuck Close

The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven't the time or energy to keep score. — Studs Terkel

I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea. — Saffron Aldridge

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia. — Haile Gebrselassie

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays ... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same. — Jesse Ventura

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread. — George Santayana

I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful. — SARK

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star. — Holliday Grainger