Flagiello Staten Quotes

#1. Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.

Mark Strong

#2. Embrace good smells. No cost, no calories, no energy, no time - a quick hit of pleasure.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

Alice Morse Earle

#4. It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

Damien Hirst

#5. But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

Edward Burns

#6. We live in an industrial world with a globalized capitalist economy organized politically around nation-states. Finding a willing audience for even a mild critique of any of these foundational systems is not easy; suggesting that all three systems should be rethought in fundamental ways seems crazy.

Robert Jensen

#7. There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed.

Haile Gerima

#8. Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#9. Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Althea Gibson

#10. Look into the face of a man who will kill you for a belief and your nostrils will snuff up the scent of abomination. Hear a speech declaring a holy war and, I assure you, your ears should catch the clink of evil's scales and the dragging of its monstrous tail over the purity of the language.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!

Ed Crane

#12. The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

Peter Hoeg

#13. The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

Ken Wyatt

#14. One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.

Daniel C. Dennett

#15. I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Karl Kraus