Ursus Arctos Quotes & Sayings

A merrier baby than he had never been seen. Everything he glimpsed around him roused his interest and stirred him to joy. He looked with delight at the threads of rain outside the window, as if they were confetti and multicolored streamers. And if, as happens, the sunlight reached the ceiling indirectly and cast the shadows of the street's morning bustle, he would stare as it fascinated, refusing to abandon it, as if he were watching an extraordinary display of Chinese acrobats, given especially or him. You would have said, to tell the truth, from his laughter, from the constant brightening of his little face, that he didn't see things only in their usual aspects, but as multiple images of other things, varying to infinity. Otherwise, there was no explaining why the wretched, monotonous scene the house offered every day could afford him such diverse, inexhaustible amusement. — Elsa Morante

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide. — Dinesh D'Souza

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor. — Robert Metcalfe

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt

I was extreme ... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time. — Pink

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. — Zebulon Pike

Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones. — David Levithan

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to. — Lesley Gore

For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science. — Liz Williams