Picotto Mauro Quotes

#1. I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

Jenny Holzer

#2. The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.

Orrin Woodward

#3. Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#5. To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

Deborah Tannen

#6. I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Vladimir Putin

#7. I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.

Christian Louboutin

#8. The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Samantha Power

#9. The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

Mike Huckabee

#10. Kite spends three minutes trying to calm me down - 'Dutch! Dutch!' - and then just hugs me with his huge arms, so I am completely wrapped up, and inside him, like an owl inside a hollow tree. This is my most enjoyable crying ever - if all crying were this pleasant, I would do it more often.

Caitlin Moran

#11. There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

James D'arcy

#12. The really important thing is not live, but to live well.

Socrates

#13. It's strange the way everybody has their own pet notion about Jesus, and nobody's pet notion seems to agree with anybody else's.

David James Duncan

#14. Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

Leroy Chiao