Uzinele Malaxa Quotes

#1. There are only two types of people who can be totally honest with each other, lovers and strangers. Everyone else is just negotiating.

James Grippando

#2. How do you make God laugh?" "I have no idea," I say. "Make a plan," he says, then pauses for a moment to let it sink in. "That's it: Make. A. Plan.

Giano Cromley

#3. Our species has discovered a way to communicate through the dark, to transcend immense distances. No means of communication is faster or cheaper or reaches out farther. It's called radio.

Carl Sagan

#4. Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.

Michael Showalter

#5. Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.

Peggy Vincent

#6. There's trouble in every house, and some in the street.
Irish Proverb

Dorien Kelly

#7. There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.

Gloria Steinem

#8. What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#9. After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.

Timothy Garton Ash

#10. All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

Laurie Lee

#11. The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

Silvio Berlusconi

#12. Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.

Count Basie

#13. No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.

Adora Svitak