Villacortas Quotes & Sayings

I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning. — Chris Matthews

Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities. — Mohsin Hamid

and withholding. Everything I get from them is either inconclusive or subject to reinterpretation. Nothing is as it appears. — Michael Brandman

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before. — Payne Stewart

We be of one blood, ye and I — Rudyard Kipling

Oh honey, you don't really argue with crazy, you just take a step back and watch it unfold" ~Harley Saving Destiny's Moments. — Christine Dawn

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing. — Michael Parkinson

He pulled me up into the world of advanced literature, where you wrote essays about a line of Dante, where nothing could be made complex enough, where art dealt with the supreme, not in a high-flown sense because it was the modernist canon with which we were engaged, but in the sense of the ungraspable, which was best illustrated by Blanchot's description of Orpheus's gaze, the night of the night, the negation of the negation, which of course was in some way above the trivial and in many ways wretched lives we lived, but what I learned was that also our ludicrously inconsequential lives, in which we could not attain anything of what we wanted, nothing, in which everything was beyond our abilities and power, had a part in this world, and thus also in the supreme, for books existed, you only had to read them, no one but myself could exclude me from them. You just had to reach up. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes. — Gabrielle Zevin

I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones. — Charles Darwin

When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions. — Niccolo Machiavelli