Zwonimir Quotes & Sayings

What was wrong with the past?" asked Mama Ramotswe. She intended the question seriously. There were too many people who took the view that the past was bad, that we should rid ourselves of all traces of it as soon as possible. But the past was not bad; some of it may have been less than perfect-- there had been cruelties then that we had done well to get rid of-- but there had also been plenty of good things. There had been the old Botswana ways, the courtesy and the kindness; there had been the attitude that you should find time for other people and not always be in a desperate rush; there had been the belief that you should listen to other people, should talk to them, rather than spend all your time fiddling with your electronic gadgets; there had been the view that it was a good thing to sit under a tree sometimes and look up at the sky and think about cattle or pumpkins or non-electric things like that. — Alexander McCall Smith

They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?
'What does one do in America when one is sad - without alcohol?' asks Zwonimir. — Joseph Roth

The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth. — Matt Taibbi

I'm fucking drowning in her, and I'm not even sure I want to come up for air. — K. Bromberg

He who has two languages has two souls. — Quintus Ennius

The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't. — W.C. Fields

People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three — George Best

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it. — Janet Burroway

'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it. — R. Kelly

Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were. — Tara Lipinski

I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research. — Michael Sandel