Anastasio Somoza Quotes

#1. When Don Anastasio Somoza fled the country, he took with him everything he could carry, including all the cash in the national treasury. He even had the bodies of Tacho I and Luis Somoza dug up and they, too, went into exile. No doubt he would have taken the land as well, if he'd known how.

Salman Rushdie

#2. While he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.

Herman Melville

#3. Do you make a habit out of proclaiming things in ignorance?

Patrick Weekes

#4. In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

Burt Rutan

#5. The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Boris Vian

#6. Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

August Wilson

#7. Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

Hiroya Oku

#8. Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. Number one comes freedom first for my people and equality. And this is what I plan to do after I'm through fighting - working with nothing but the people, the little people in the alleys: the downtrodden people, going out and helping them with my image.

Muhammad Ali

#10. Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes:
At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle.
The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle.
And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle,
And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single.

Helen Fielding

#11. A kiss is an inquiry on the second floor as to what's going on on the first floor.

Theresa Russell

#12. Our biggest dreams always start as a simple thought; what those thoughts become depends upon how they are nurtured.

Andi Jones