Yankelevich Tomas Quotes & Sayings

When a TV network - not to pick on TV - devotes hours and hours to the salacious details of a crime of passion that affects none of our lives, is that advocacy? No. When an online site collects pictures of cute cats, is that advocacy? Hardly. When a newspaper devotes resources to covering football games, is that advocacy? Sorry, but no. — Jeff Jarvis

The inhabitants of England in the age of Chaucer commonly used an expression, to be in hide and hair, meaning to be lost or beyond discovery. But then it disappears from the written record for four hundred years before resurfacing, suddenly and unexpectedly, in America in 1857 as neither hide nor hair. It is dearly unlikely that the phrase went into a linguistic coma for four centuries. So who was quietly preserving it for four hundred years, and why did it so abruptly return to prominence in the sixth decade of the nineteenth century in a country two thousand miles away? — Bill Bryson

When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nothing hurts me, Low Born. Absolutely nothing."
"How is that possible?" And for some reason he sounded as if he truly cared about her answer.
"When you stop feeling anything, you find it quite possible. — G.A. Aiken

Coke didn't last long enough; it gave me a hangover for two weeks for being high for ten minutes. — John Waters

The goal is to help the weak grow strong, not to let the weak become weaker. — Neale Donald Walsch

Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity. — Fatima Bint Muhammad

I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway. — Matthew Perry

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it. — Robert Breault

It would mean that the castle is not yet generating enough eroto-energy. — Angela Carter

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. — Dee Dee Myers

If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind? — Meg Wolitzer

When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction. — Will Rogers

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. — Lynn Johnston

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable ... — Edward Gibbon