Suerte Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same
but not often. Most publishers find combining the two is the only way to stay afloat. — Paula Gosling

I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.'
'Think I don't know that?'
'What did you start out to get, Esme?'
Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground.
'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose. — Terry Pratchett

There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country. — Marilyn Ferguson

I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind. — Marcel Duchamp

Or consider how we citizens of rich countries obtain our oil and minerals. Teodoro Obiang, the dictator of tiny Equatorial Guinea, sells most of his country's oil to American corporations, among them Exxon Mobil, Marathon, and Hess. Although his official salary is a modest $60,000, this ruler of a country of 550,000 people is richer than Queen Elizabeth II. He owns six private jets and a $35 million house in Malibu, as well as other houses in Maryland and Cape Town and a fleet of Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Bentleys. Most of the people over whom he rules live in extreme poverty, with a life expectancy of forty-nine and an infant mortality of eighty-seven per one thousand (this means that more than one child in twelve dies before its first birthday). — Peter Singer

Combine science and humanities. — Steve Jobs

What is false about hope? — Mitch Albom

Oh, by Moradin's itchy arse," grumbled Bruenor. "Scratched it, he did, and this one fell out. — R.A. Salvatore

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about. — Linda Lavin

The effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Spiritual feminists, no less than medieval mystics, are searching in the ways made available to them through their culture to separate themselves from everything in their hearts and minds that puts them at odds with the divine plan (and therefore with their own best interests), and to find a true harmony between themselves and the universe. — Cynthia Eller

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. — Flann O'Brien

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. — Ronnie Shakes

We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands ... Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship ... But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse ... The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend's presence, is concerned with the common world. — Hannah Arendt