Yassen Kantchev Quotes & Sayings

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life. — Ron Moody

If you educate an idiot, you end up with an educated idiot. — Robert Clarence Swanson

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. — Sonya Levien

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream. — Les Brown

In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining. — John Lescroart

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards. — Jean Cocteau

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. — Lady Bird Johnson

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers. — Pythagoras

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow. — William Dean Howells

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. — Carroll Quigley

Never feel you are alone as someone is always by your side. — Mitch Kynock

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom. — Francis Bacon

Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish. — Bethenny Frankel

I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even we don't notice it until we've written three or four books. — Sara Zarr

How predictable; As if appearance is all that matters for people who can't see with anything other than their eyes. — Donna Lynn Hope