Alfonsina Quotes & Sayings

I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands. — Alfonsina Storni

People have to be secure in order to transfer their money to you. Never forget that. How you make them secure is to not come at them from above (action, yang) telling them how marvelous the product is and how marvelous you are. Instead, work on their comfort zone first, keeping silent for the most part, leading things along effortlessly by asking questions (nonaction, yin). When you do get to talk, be sure to tell them that everything is cozy, safe, and secure. People need to hear that. Work on their positive energy, and tell them about the good fortune that is about to descend upon them in these exciting and positive times. Then, and only then, mention the dumb screws. — Stuart Wilde

many societies, of course, ours was founded on fearful superstition, and this is always reason enough for any kind of behavior. She — Thomas Ligotti

People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me. — Fairuza Balk

Evil is a form of incompetence. — Alan Bullock

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent. — Barry McCaffrey

My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown. — H.P. Lovecraft

An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. — Michelangelo

Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ... — Alfonsina Storni

The gold-seekers began to work out what the main characters were like. They sketched out dramatis personae such as:

UGOLIN: A grand master of the Fascist Order (bass)
ALFONSINA: His daughter (coloratura soprano)
COMRADE MITIN: A Soviet inventor (baritone)
SFORZA: A fascist prince (tenor)
GAVRILA: A Soviet Young Communist (mezzo-soprano dressed as a man)
NINA: A Young Communist and daughter of a priest (lyric soprano) — Ilya Ilf