Maria Elena Vicky Cristina Barcelona Quotes

#1. They fascinated him, the unsubtle cowering of the almost rich in the presence of the rich, and the rich in the presence of the very rich; to have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money. Obinze felt repulsion and longing; he pitied them, but he also imagined being like them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. Jane circled the mansion, passing door after door, all too la-di-da for comfort.

Jeanne Birdsall

#3. It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

Pliny The Elder

#4. When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

Salman Rushdie

#5. When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Rob Brydon

#6. My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

Sarah McLachlan

#7. With kings and queens inside his bag. Hulaki was a man of power.

Mahesh Poudyal

#8. The fact that we live without God is, in a sense, not up to us. It's not really a choice ... But goodness is a choice. It is the most important choice we can ever make. And we have to make it again and again, throughout our lives and in every aspect of our lives.

Greg M. Epstein

#9. I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets still feel they depend on an inner voice, or a voice which tells them what to do.

Oliver Sacks

#10. WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear - it never tires me.
To you, your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?

Walt Whitman

#11. Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs
each with our own unique brand.

Keith Ferrazzi

#12. Effeminate men have suffered a bad press the world over.

Camille Paglia

#13. This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills.

David Perlmutter