Mirjana Puhar famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

  • Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

  • If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

  • Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  • A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

  • Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

  • It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

  • My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

  • The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

  • God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

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