Zuppardos Quotes & Sayings

You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you. — Joshua Fields Millburn

To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.' — Buzz Osborne

I was temperamentally better suited to a cognitive discipline, to an introspective field - internal medicine, or perhaps psychiatry. The sight of the operating theater made me sweat. The idea of holding a scalpel caused coils to form in my belly. (It still does.) Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine.
And so I became a surgeon. — Abraham Verghese

Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer's been made into hamburger."

~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel — M.T. Bass

Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart. — Shannon L. Alder

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another. — Benjamin Bratt

The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land. — Wes Jackson

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist. — Rokia Traore

Everyone has baggage, maybe we should help each other carry it. — Rob Liano

So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch. — Brandi Carlile

Like the curved pipe of a fountain, your arching boughs
drive the sap
downward and up again: and almost without awakening
it bursts out of sleep, into its sweetest achievement.
Like the god stepping into the swan. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved. — Bill Brandt