BlogClub.RO: Mercury Scorpio, quotes, famous people

joi, 11 iunie 2026

Mercury Scorpio, quotes, famous people

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!”

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”

“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”

― Oscar Wilde (Libra), The Picture of Dorian Gray

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1858012-the-picture-of-dorian-gray

“God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something”.

“Tyrone: Beware of that brother of yours or he’ll poison life for you with his dammed sneering serpent’s tongue!”

“Edmund (sardonically). We don’t seem able to avoid unpleasant topics, do we?”

“He has a tongue like an adder when he’s drunk.” – Eugene O’Neill (Libra), Long day’s journey into night

"A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs, there's the potential for life" - Jean-Claude Van Damme (Libra)

“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.”

“Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse.” - Michel Foucault (Libra)

https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Michel_Foucault

“You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.”

“The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”

“It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.”

― Arthur Miller (Libra), Death of a Salesman

“I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.”

“I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.”

“Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!” Eminem (Libra)

“[You first started a Formula 1 race at 21. What would you say to that 21 year old now?] Nothing. I wouldn't talk to him.”

“[The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you?] It protects my head.”

“[Interviewer: The most exciting moment during the race weekend?] I think so it's the race start, always. [Interviewer: The most boring?] Now.” Kimi Räikkönen (Libra)

“When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!” Bobby Knight (Scorpio)

“I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.” Larry King (Scorpio)

“Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.” Ezra Pound (Scorpio)

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.”

― Sylvia Plath (Scorpio), The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3094683-the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath

"When one has your disposition, and is poor, one may either become a famous thief or a great detective. Choose." Émile Gaboriau (Scorpio), Monsieur Lecoq

“I'm entertained more by my own thoughts than by the thoughts of others. I don't mind answering questions. But in an exchange of conversation, I wind up being a pair of ears.” Charles Bronson (Scorpio)

“Be careful, with quotations, you can damn anything.”

“You have not come back from hell with empty hands.” André Malraux (Scorpio)

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.” Stefan Zweig (Sagittarius), The Burning Secret and other stories

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.” Walt Disney (Sagittarius)

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but of what is left out of it.”

“The harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered. So, at last, with a sigh and a yawn, he gave it up.” - Tom Sawyer

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” - Mark Twain (Sagittarius)

“I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with.”

“The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.” John Malkovich (Sagittarius)

“It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box.”

“If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.” Joel Coen (Sagittarius)