Waltzers Fairground Quotes & Sayings

The city of Granada, so gloriously provided with architectural reminders of its Islamic heritage, was particularly anxious to show that it was a more ancient and distinguished Christian centre than Toledo or Santiago de Compostela, and it also wanted to outface the upstart royal capital Madrid. These aims were much assisted by the 'discovery' from 1588 onwards of a series of forged early Christian relics (plomos, or lead books) hidden in the minaret of the former main Granadan mosque and in various nearby caves. — Diarmaid MacCulloch

Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a good way to do it. Big acquisitions often don't work out. — Ross Levinsohn

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life! — Barbara Johnson

The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions. — Ronald Graham

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art
although it may possibly be very good journalism? — Sherwood Anderson

I learn new things all the time. — Vincente Minnelli

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me. — Jimmy Cliff

Men unite against none so readily as against those whom they
see attempting to rule over them. — Xenophon

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them. — Honore De Balzac

What was so great about Lost was that it came to the front door as a drama that was straight-up and really gave you the sci-fi underneath it all. It backed into sci-fi show, at least in my opinion. As soon as they got hooked, they were like, "Okay, I'm there." — J.H. Wyman

Don't take it so hard, Joel," Johnson cut in. "After all, prayer is
not the monopoly of one." (Chapter 18) — Ryanne Salve

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. — Matt Damon