Terenziani Voliere Quotes

#1. A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Milan Kundera

#2. I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.

Donald Ray Pollock

#3. Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.

William Forsyth Sharpe

#4. To the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

Margaret Mead

#5. There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#6. Might-have-been are insidious, aren't they, in the way they don't ever quite lie still or go away.

Patrick Gale

#7. I'm a minor player in my own life story.

Tony Wilson

#8. Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.

Julie Anne Long

#9. He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay."
"I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you.

Scott Westerfeld

#10. The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

Joe Rogan

#11. I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

Ian Millar

#12. [I have] occasional depersonalization disorder, (which makes me feel utterly detached from reality, but in less of a "this LSD is awesome" kind of way and more of a "I wonder what my face is doing right now" and "it sure would be nice to feel emotions again" sort of thing).

Jenny Lawson

#13. Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

Juvenal

#14. You are nothing but a number of days, and whenever a day passes away, a part of you passes away

Al-Hasan Al-Basri