Macalusos Thriftway Quotes

#1. I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.

Betsy Lerner

#2. Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful.

Jesse Stone

#3. I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents.

Michael Gove

#4. I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

Nik Wallenda

#5. Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly.

Guillermo Del Toro

#6. I don't only like rock music. There are other forms of music that I find interesting. I would want to do everything, every kind of music. I wouldn't want to be limited to like playing heavy metal or whatever.

Mick Jagger

#7. Time can be very good or very cruel to films.

James Gray

#8. Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Bill Gates

#9. You're cute when you're mad."
He caressed my bottom lip with the pad of his thumb. I huffed in exasperation.
"Is that why you make me mad all the time?

Adriane Leigh

#10. Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

Emanuel Celler

#12. Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

William Shakespeare

#13. It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Ellen Glasgow

#14. I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

Laura Linney

#15. So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire ... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

Michelangelo