Pestera Ialomitei Quotes

#1. The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And ... that's ridiculous, but so am I.

Tegan Quin

#3. We Sackett boys never killed anything we didn't need to eat unless it was coming at us. A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

Louis L'Amour

#4. How much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Louise Bogan

#5. We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Gary L. Francione

#6. I find literary fiction about the Holocaust or any other major world tragedy to be distasteful - nonfiction only, please.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. The thing you are passionate about is not random; it stems from an inner yearning. Don't ignore it or allow others to talk you out of it. Go get it!

Steve Maraboli

#8. The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

Tony Kushner

#9. I don't think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there's long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I'm searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.

Jack Black

#10. Never regret. Never forget.

Tijan

#11. She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Louis Kronenberger

#12. That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

Jimmy Hill

#13. As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

Jane Addams