Roberto Goizueta Quotes

#1. My insides exploded from the brilliance of it all. There was nothing more stunning than a man who not only knew the most classic stories of all time, but also found a way to make his body his own personal bookshelf.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#2. Fireflies were the souls of unbaptized dead infants.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance.

Roberto Goizueta

#4. The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are ... people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.

John Piper

#5. At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present.

Roberto Goizueta

#6. I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#7. People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother.

Nicole Miller

#8. Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

Frank Knox

#9. If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

Naguib Mahfouz

#10. Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

Michael Skolnik

#11. Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good. None of us want to look stupid, or at least overmatched, by admitting we don't know an answer.

Steven D. Levitt

#12. LUKE Friends, rebels, starfighters, lend me your ears. Wish not we had a single fighter more, If we are mark'd to die, we are enough To make our planets proud. But should we win, We fewer rebels share the greater fame. We all have sacrific'd unto this cause.

Ian Doescher

#13. The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

Klaus Kinski

#14. If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

Roberto Goizueta

#15. We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

Roberto Goizueta

#16. Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.

Bram Stoker

#17. I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.

Kid Rock

#18. ah, life -
the thing
that happens
to us
while we're off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.

Amanda Lovelace

#19. Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I'm going to put toilet paper right next to the wheel and say those are the best ideas anyone's ever had. Scoff at it if you will, but try living for two millennia without it and then we'll talk.

Kevin Hearne