Lisa Gelobter Quotes

#1. The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Vladimir Putin

#2. You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

John McAfee

#3. You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Terry Pratchett

#4. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

#5. What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.

Elton John

#6. Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.

Mehmed The Conqueror

#7. Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Horace Mann

#8. The people I hung out with in my early twenties were middle-class and, at least to our minds, artistic. We'd all turned our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it.

David Sedaris

#9. Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people.

Debasish Mridha

#10. If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

Simon Wiesenthal

#11. I would say that as I've gotten older, I trust my intuition more; I allow myself more freedom both musically, creatively and my own life existentially.

Matisyahu

#12. The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.

William Monahan

#13. I flinch. The rag she gives me is clean, but it still smells like blood.

Victoria Aveyard