Alberini Inspection Quotes & Sayings

The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence. — Emil M. Cioran

I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault. — Pearl S. Buck

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly. — Umberto Eco

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The health of the eye demands a horizon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience. — Wade Davis

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour. — Henry David Thoreau

Conscientiousness comprises industriousness, self-control, stick-to-itiveness, and a desire for order. — Daniel J. Levitin

But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It's a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form.
Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it's that private perpetual struggle.
Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are. — Steve Almond

Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. — George Herbert

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without. — Ernie Pyle

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. — Charles Mackay

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement. — James F. Byrnes

Abel also kept busy taking it easy. Only when taking it easy, he'd learned, could one properly do one's wondering. — William Steig

My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."
Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire — Shirley Hazzard