Topalovici Quotes & Sayings

What I heard was but the melody of children at play, nothing but that, and so limpid was the air that within this vapor of blended voices, majestic and minute, remote and magically near, frank and divinely enigmatic - one could hear now and then, as if released, an almost articulate spurt of vivid laughter, or the crack of a bat, or the clatter of a toy wagon, but it was all really too far for the eye to distinguish any movement in the lightly etched streets. I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background, and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord. — Vladimir Nabokov

The essence of education is not to get a certificate or job but, to be a holistically developed person who can positively impact the society. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things. — Edgar H Schein

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition. — Robert Kagan

In the Westerville, Ohio, school district, for example, a union contract provision stipulated that a coin flip would be used to determine seniority if two teachers were hired on the same day. One might be a great teacher, the other awful; it makes no difference. That is how much importance unions place on teacher quality. — Glenn Beck

After a few drinks, my mom would recite her lines as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice' from her high school play. But I first discovered Shakespeare properly when I was about five. I used to look for the most complicated books I could find and pretend to be reading them. I wanted people to think I was smart. — Chris Adrian

When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom. — Hippocrates

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel. — Samuel Goldwyn

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it. — Henry David Thoreau

It's amazing how low you go to get high. — John Lennon

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be. — Aidan Gillen

You'd really give up your big, swanky apartment?"
"If you don't want to move in there with me, yes."
"But you love your apartment."
"I love you more, dumb ass. — Suzanne Wright

You are Beautiful when you are happy — Oscar Wilde