Jose Bergamin Quotes

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

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• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Business
  • Kings

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Starting

• Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Service
  • Creating
  • Twitter

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Goal

• It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Dancing
  • Satisfied
  • Stuck

• Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Productive

• It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Always
  • Sea
  • Rocks

• I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Used

• (intro) Well, here we go. This is the first book I've written since 1975, when I was in the 7th grade and wrote Boogers Are Good Eatin'. (p. 1).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Book

• I raised my arms as if in prayer and heard the mutter of response behind me. Then I scattered the dried grains, red and brown and black, and studied the patterns they formed on the stone ledge before Sibbos. This is not such a mystic thing. You see what it is sensible to see, or else you interpret what you see so that the meaning comes out as you want it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Black
  • Prayer
  • Red

• He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heart
  • She
  • Pain

• 'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Shine

• Jury - A group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Business
  • Health

• The world’s been waiting, they’ve been waiting for years And they’ve just gotta hear it The kids are waiting, they’ve been shedding tears So open your arms and sing for us

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • World
  • Kids
  • Waiting

• Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

  

  James Jeans
  • Space

• I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

  

  Christen Press
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Tears

• It is natural for us to seek a Standard of Taste; a rule, by which the various sentiments of men may be reconciled; at least, a decision, afforded, confirming one sentiment, and condemning another.

  

  David Hume
  • Men
  • May
  • Decision

• We like the organic market and the organic market for olives at the present time has given us a great opportunity.

  

  John Young
  • Time
  • Great
  • Present

• The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

  

  Jose Bergamin
  • Drunk
  • Coward