Lisboa Portugal Quotes

#1. An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

Oscar Levant

#2. Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement.

Starhawk

#3. Go vote now it will make you feel big and strong

Bob Schieffer

#4. A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

Vincent Van Gogh

#5. The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

Charles Horton Cooley

#6. I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Clara Schumann

#7. The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

Joel Salatin

#8. I don't get why we call it a crush when it feels more like a curse.

Julie Murphy

#9. You can always count on an asshole to be an asshole.

Angela S. Choi

#10. Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?

Benjamin Franklin

#11. Give freedom to colours and then you shall meet the rainbow everywhere!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Then the 1956 Peace Prize went to Eisenhower and Khrushchev for agreeing not to build the hydrogen bomb. That agreement was now also called the Szilard Treaty. Today the H-bomb was a threshold no one dared cross without exciting hostile moves by all other powers.

Gregory Benford