Zdenko Jelcic Quotes & Sayings

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
[Why Societies Collapse, ABC Local, July 17, 2003] — Jared Diamond

I didn't know what would take my mind off the sexy Spartan, except for maybe a total lobotomy. — Jennifer Estep

So many women don't have voices in their governments. — Sarah Gavron

At forty-two, I was still holding up pretty well, but my once effortlessly lean body now look as though it belonged in a Dove firming cream ad -- the one where they give women permission to have thighs. When I unbuttoned my jeans at night, I swore I heard the same sound that Pillsbury dough made when I twisted the cylindrical container. My hair was beginning to gray, and when I smiled, the parentheses around my mouth remained. My least favorite position in yoga class was the downward dog because, as I hung my head downward, I always felt the skin from my face was about to splatter against my mat like a pancake batter hitting the griddle. So being called the top model by a young Italian was a wonderful souvenir, though cheaper than the toys sold outside the Pantheon in Rome. — Jennifer Coburn

It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean. — Park Chan-wook

Another day bleeds out on the horizon, red and pink and gold; staring up at the sky. — Lauren Oliver

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. — Brian Eno

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job. — Kenneth Langone

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph. — Arnold Newman

When you think small and up the middle, good things happen. — Alex Rodriguez

The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding. — Rob Lowe

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself. — Mark Twain

But I called, as we came near, to one who stood beside the water's edge, asking him what men did in Astahahn and what their merchandise was, and with whom they traded. He said, "Here we have fettered and manacled Time, who would otherwise slay the gods." I asked him what gods they worshipped in that city, and he said, "All those gods whom Time has not yet slain." (from "Idle Days on the River Yann") — Lord Dunsany