Vicolo Old Quotes & Sayings

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. — John Desmond Bernal

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love. — David Gemmell

If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed. — Elizabeth Hoyt

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design. — Daniel Keys Moran

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special. — Michael C. Hall

The truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else. — Michael Crichton

Sorry to hear about your Dad."
He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him."
"Heart attack?"
"He was hit by a Pizza Express truck. — J.A. Konrath

By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian souls in order to gain the world. — Urvashi Vaid

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. — Aeschylus

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not. — Jonathan Swift

Heads half-glued together, Abby and Lara had engaged in rapid-fire chitchat as they all hurried across campus. — Madeleine Roux

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want. — Abel Ferrara

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. — Zaha Hadid

Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos ... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since. — Tony Hsieh