Ehrnrooth Casimir Quotes

#1. Culture feeds on the sap of economics, and a material surplus is necessary, so that culture may grow, develop and become subtle.

Leon Trotsky

#2. I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick ... maker.

Joshua Homme

#3. I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

Steve Martin

#4. Honor is always: Not just when you feel like it.

Mel Evers

#5. My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

Debi Thomas

#6. Maybe you don't just have "bad luck" - maybe you are caught-up in a stampede of ugliness.

Bryant McGill

#7. I locked my smile in the attack position,

Claire North

#8. Learn to tell what your story is about in one sentence. Narrow your focus. Stories have to be about something.

Mary Carter

#9. It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)

Donald Rumsfeld

#10. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Don Marquis

#11. When fully fluffed they looked like oversized wads of dryer lint with six little paws and two big, innocent blue eyes.

Jayne Castle

#12. The only reasonable thing was to accept the good of men and be patient with their faults. The words of the dying God crossed his memory: Forgive them, for they know not what they do. CXXII

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. Call no man happy. Call no man happy until he has gone down to his grave in peace.

Hilary Mantel

#14. True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

Allan Bloom

#15. Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.

Giovanna Cau