Turandot Pavarotti Quotes

#1. When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark "L," the "owL" sound.

Gregory Rabassa

#2. The other day a young Internet surfer asked me why I preferred using a pencil instead of a computer. The principal reason, I told him, was that I liked chewing on the end of my pencil. A nasty habit, but it helps me concentrate. And I find it extremely difficult to chew on a computer.

Ruskin Bond

#3. When Hiro first saw this place, ten years ago, the monorail hadn't been written yet; he and his buddies had to write car and motorcycle software in order to get around. They would take their software out and race it in the black desert of the electronic night.

Neal Stephenson

#4. Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Oscar Wilde

#5. Being the exception was no longer a mysterious, special thing. I had become his weakness.

Jamie McGuire

#6. That kid gave Leo the freakie-deakies.

Rick Riordan

#7. I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.

Tony Abbott

#8. The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Samuel Smiles

#9. That's stupid." I stopped to look at him. "why would you want everyone assuming something that isn't true?"
"Why should I care?"
"So you can ask someone you're interested in to go to the dance with you," I replied, not expecting his lack of concern.
"I just did.

Rebecca Donovan

#10. China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

Yoshihiko Noda

#11. Yin and Yang are one vital force
the primordial aura.

Wang Yangming

#12. For weeks, [Sonia] Sotomayor had seen drafts of Ginsburg's opinion as it circulated among the justices. She knew she was about to be a public target. But she would have the courage of her convictions - perhaps stubbornly, misguidedly - yet with confidence enough to be the one in an 8-1 vote.

Joan Biskupic

#13. Maybe if I point to my brain it will work ...

Chris Cheney

#14. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

Nikola Tesla

#15. But then he says, "Everything happens for a reason."
And that's an answer I can't handle.

Bryan Bliss