Alpesi Quotes & Sayings

The day I need a friend like you, I'll just have myself a little squat and shit one out. — J.A. Huss

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience
the headlong rush to the last page, the falling into a character's life, the deeper understanding we've gotten of a place or a time, or the feeling of reading words that are put together in a way that causes us to look at the world differently. We need to start thinking about what it is about a book that draws us in, rather than what the book is about. — Nancy Pearl

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen. — Jennifer Lynch

The essential code must include . . . how to crawl from the wreckage when this life falters, how to plunge to the cellar of sorrow and grope for the ladder that might bring you back into some kind of light, no matter how dim or strange. — Jane Kirkpatrick

I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another. — Michael Vick

But I did not write any such letter that evening. Because when I returned to the house I encountered Sophie in the flesh for the first time and fell, if not instantaneously, then swiftly and fathomlessly in love with her. It was a love which, as time wore on that summer, I realized had many reasons for laying claim to my existence. — William Styron

Most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life.
Their minds are of the stay-at-home order ... In the immutability of their surroundings, the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; ... a casual stroll or a casual spree on shore suffices to unfold for him the secret of a whole continent, and generally he finds the secret not worth knowing. — Joseph Conrad

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. — E.A. Bucchianeri

He whom is without typos, throw the first stone. — Antonia Perdu

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press. — Samuel

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy. — Haruki Murakami

My mom used to say, You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine. — Sonia