Teofilo Quotes

#1. God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

Teofilo Stevenson

#3. Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Seth Godin

#4. I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I'm not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.

Jenny Slate

#5. Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. Class is a stronger social adhesive than nationality.

Elly Griffiths

#7. In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#8. In January 1995 three prisoners, two category 'A' prisoners and a lifer escaped from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. After four days of freedom they were recaptured. My length of freedom far surpassed theirs.

Stephen Richards

#9. On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Maya Angelou

#10. I hate watching myself on screen. I can't stand it.

Johnny Depp

#11. Always expect the best. Then if you have to hurdle a few tough problems, you will have generated the strength and courage to do so.

George Matthew Adams

#12. Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

James Arthur Ray

#13. Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

Yann Martel

#14. If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.

John Ratey