Argyrokastron Quotes

#1. Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities.

Ismail Kadare

#2. The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
[Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.]

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#3. Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful."
from: "The Beauty of Ugh"

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

Walter Mosley

#5. There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather ... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Mark Twain

#6. Let us not see today's troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver.

Dillon Burroughs

#7. I'm always interested in new things. I don't go seeking out every band I can hear because there are too many, especially now with the Internet. There's no way you can collect everything.

Chris Reifert

#8. If only there was mouthwash for the brain. Brain wash. They could make a fortune on that stuff.

Theresa Paolo

#9. I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

Jim Lehrer

#10. Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.

Mark Harmon

#12. My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.

Susun Weed