Colimas North Quotes

#1. J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Roger Fry

#2. Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

Rinus Michels

#3. George Sanders's had been the best, an Old Hollywood classic, my father had known it by heart and liked to quote from it. Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored.

Donna Tartt

#4. Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.

Herbert Spencer

#5. A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

Sven Birkerts

#6. I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.

Vladimir Kramnik

#7. Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

Joel Salatin

#8. Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

Tony Abbott

#9. It's not a mystery, it's a secret. Because someone knows. A mystery is something no one knows.

Andrei Bitov

#10. I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#11. Make subtlety obvious.

Billy Wilder

#12. The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.

Robert Edmond Jones