Vintage Friday Quotes

#1. I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Matthew Goode

#2. A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight and forty millions; nor is it the better for being guided by a dozen of persons of quality, who have betrayed their trust in order to obtain that power.

Edmund Burke

#3. My favourite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Anna. It smelled of old paper and dust and it was my sanctuary, my refuge.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children.

J. C. Watts

#5. It is not so much the science of snow for me, anymore. I'd rather just look at it. The light, the way it absorbs sound. The way we feel as if the more that falls, the more we are forgiven.

Anthony Doerr

#6. The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

Pablo Picasso

#7. Friends are like ants, they walk into your life unnoticed and take over your life as if its like their own.
But unlike ants they leave behind million smiles, uncountable memories.

Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

#8. Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

Van Jones

#9. A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

Felicity Huffman

#10. If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

Samuel Adams

#11. Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Will Durant