Zimska Carolija Quotes & Sayings

I suppose I do deserve it; for not noticing the nearest helpers I have. But you must admit the accumulation of incidents was rather formidable. Did you never feel just a momentary awe of the awful volume?' 'Oh, that,' said Father Brown. 'I opened it as soon as I saw it lying there. It's all blank pages. You see, I am not superstitious.' The — G.K. Chesterton

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking. — Shigeru Miyamoto

It may seem strange, but I have an aversion to people trying to kill me. It sparks this almost unconscious desire to do something about it. It also sets fire to my desire to survive. — G.R. Matthews

Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage. — Samuel Johnson

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power. — Michel De Montaigne

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them. — Joseph Addison

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. — Orhan Pamuk

No one who has been martyred by the Jews should remain unknown.
And no one who has been martyred by the Jews will remain unavenged. — Eustace Mullins

Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide. — Mohsin Hamid

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time. — Gideon Raff

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity. — B.F. Skinner