I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about. ~Bob Colacello
#quotes #bob-colacello #italian

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
#quotes #tom-hanks #50s #generation

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
#quotes #emile-durkheim #society #mind

The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
#quotes #rick-riordan #the-little-mermaid

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. ~Jose Mourinho
#quotes #jose-mourinho #games

Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
#quotes #sue-grafton #children #schooling

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
#quotes #germaine-greer #women #men #talking

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
#quotes #charlayne-hunter-gault #government #poverty #south-africa

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
#quotes #jessye-norman #mind #experience #world

The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old; maybe 35, who knows? ~Jose Mourinho
#quotes #jose-mourinho #chelsea #samuel-eto-o #football

My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
#quotes #alice-eve #childhood #clothing

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
#quotes #john-shelton-reed #south #san-jose

I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person. ~Paolo Sorrentino
#quotes #paolo-sorrentino #twitter

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
#quotes #jose-marti #light

We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
#quotes #george-herbert #honor

The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, "Overwhelming feeling of dread." That was going to go over nicely. ~Anne Ursu
#quotes #anne-ursu

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man? ~Oriana Fallaci
#quotes #oriana-fallaci #ethics

In Denmark, lots of people come up to me for autographs. ~Caroline Wozniacki
#quotes #caroline-wozniacki #denmark #people

Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
#quotes #jose-bergamin #wisdom

There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
#quotes #will-cotton #painting #art #women

Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
#proverbs #hindu-proverbs

You can make the dream bigger than the night. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #dream #night

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her. ~Barbara Cartland
#quotes #barbara-cartland #women

To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #women

A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin Proverb
#proverbs #latin-proverbs #women #love #hate