Yosif Stalin Quotes & Sayings

The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism. — Christopher Hitchens

-Of course movies today no longer require film. They are recorded and held in digital suspension as ones and zeroes. And so at the moment the last remaining piece of the world is lit and shot for a movie, there will be another Big Bang ... and the multitudes of ones and zeroes will be strewn through the universe as particles that act like waves ... until, shaken by borealic winds or ignited by solar flares or otherwise galvanized by this or that heavenly signal, they compose themselves into brilliant constellations that shine in full color across the night sky of a remote planet ... where a reverent, unrecognizable form of life will look up from its rooftops at the faces of Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, George Brent, Linda Darnell ... to name just a few of the stars. — E.L. Doctorow

You are always better off to read a book, anyway, than to meet the person behind it. — Matthew Pearl

I have found that the many imbalances within our individual lives result in an overall more worldly balance. What I mean is that no matter how unfair I think something is, I need only look at the bigger picture to see how, in a way, it fits ... however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. — Cecelia Ahern

We see as we are," said — Rolf Potts

On current form, both teams will probably lose. — Aidy Boothroyd

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live. — Jean Vanier

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive. — Kimberly Adams Stedronsky

Baggage. We all had it. Mine was starting to get pretty heavy. — Trina M. Lee

Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning. — Ed O'Brien

It is with great regret that I have to inform Manchester City of my wish to leave the club. — Carlos Tevez

No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises. — Saru Singhal

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. — Neil Gaiman

But sometimes we have to be brave in order to dig deep and find answers. Even if we're not sure we're going to like the answers. — Linda Francis Lee

First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare. — Haile Gebrselassie

You make a mistake, you keep going. — Linda Gray