Umlceni Quotes & Sayings

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering. — Paulo Coelho

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. — Lynn Abbey

Errors are excllent projectiles ... Factions are blind men who aim straight — Victor Hugo

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. — Sydney Pollack

The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of danger and adventure lurking around every corner - and did I mention two dashing princes? Warning: these books may cause you to forget anything else exists until you've turned the last enthralling page. And then you'll want to start all over again! — Bree Despain

Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it. — Robert Baden-Powell

The curve of man's knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets — Nicolas Gomez Davila

If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong
or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many. — Jeb Bush

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual. — Brit Marling

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business. — Chris Whittle

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make. — K.d. Lang

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked. — J.K. Rowling

Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns. — Robert D. Arnott

Having friends is how your life gets fucked up. — Jesse Andrews

Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly. — P.D. Ouspensky