Ziarno Sezamu Quotes & Sayings

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. — Carl Jung

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained. — Lord Chesterfield

There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is the only institution that can mortgage your future without your knowledge or consent: government securities (and paper money) are promissory notes on future tax receipts, i.e., on your future production. — Ayn Rand

Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests. — Louisa May Alcott

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees. — Peter Weir

Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 piano sonatas during his lifetime, most of them when he was between the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two.) — Haruki Murakami

Blasted doorknob of a kender — Margaret Weis

Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously. — James Herriot

I'm genuine and people can believe what I say. — Romario

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable. — Edgar Allan Poe

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful. — Michael Morpurgo