Yugoslavian Quotes

#1. It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

Clive James

#2. Yugoslavian hotel: "The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid. Turn to her straightaway.

Bill Bryson

#3. There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Greece is internationally famous for three reasons. First it has more islands than people. Second, it used to be a part of Turkey. Third, its national hero, Alexander the Great, was a Yugoslavian.

Fatima Bhutto

#5. So he pointed to the unit patch on his uniform shirt and said, "U.S. . . . Air Force . . . American." The sturdy, gray-haired woman nodded and seemed relieved, understanding Musgrove. The women nodded their heads and pointed to themselves, saying, "Yugoslavian.

Gregory A. Freeman

#6. Reacher nodded. "For a spell." Then he said: "Plato is a weird name for a Mexican, don't you think? Sounds more like a Brazilian name to me." "No, Yugoslavian," Peterson said. "Like that old dictator." "That was Tito." "I thought he was a South African bishop." "That was Tutu.

Lee Child

#7. The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.

Albert Schweitzer

#8. What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Seamus Heaney

#10. I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now.

Daryn Kagan

#11. Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

Eddie Van Halen

#12. For two years, he'd seen brutality and suffering, as the Nazis turned Europe into a gigantic slave camp. But here, in a little orphanage in the back of beyond, he'd found something that had actually got better.

Robert Muchamore

#13. Life-paralysis refers to all of the opportunities we miss because we're too afraid to put anything out in the world that could be imperfect.

Brene Brown

#14. Sadly, she'd mistaken money for class...

Joanne Kennedy

#15. Um, sweetums?" Driggs piped up.
Lex blew a sweaty clump of hair off her forehead. "What did you just call me?"
He sank further under her glower. "I just - ow !

Gina Damico

#16. I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

Steven Holl