Altesino Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. — John Maynard Keynes

Although this is poetic fiction, it contains hidden moral truths worthy of being heeded and understood and imitated, ... — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?' — Peter Malkin

I do remember, Holly. I remember it all. Especially you. It's a real comfort to have you here. — Eoin Colfer

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period. — Brian Aldiss

I've never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I've always belonged to what isn't where I am and to what I could never be. Whatever isn't mine, no matter how base, has always had poetry for me. — Fernando Pessoa

I'm a total petrolhead. My three brothers and I used to ride scrambling bikes in the field near where we lived. We all liked cars. I've always loved the smell of an engine. — Jennifer Saunders

If you listen to the beginning of the whispers you will not have to hear the shouts. — Miranda J. Barrett

The park sustained them, the green harbor they preserved as the town extended itself outward, block by block and house by house. Cora thought of her garden back on Randall, the plot she cherished. Now she saw it for the joke it was - a tiny square of dirt that had convinced her she owned something. It was hers like the cotton she seeded, weeded, and picked was hers. Her plot was a shadow of something that lived elsewhere, out of sight. The way poor Michael reciting the Declaration of Independence was an echo of something that existed elsewhere. Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn't sure the document described anything real at all. America was a ghost in the darkness, like her. — Colson Whitehead

It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. — Felix Frankfurter

Darren played with the ice cream before raising a spoonful to his mouth. I watched him lick it before he wrapped his lips around the spoon, closing his eyelids and savoring the flavor on his tongue. He slowly withdrew the spoon from his mouth and opened his eyes. He smiled coyly at my rapt attention. I just wanted to reach across the table, grab a fistful of his hair and lick the ice cream right out of his mouth. — Alexis Woods

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth! — Jim Elliot

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Here's the deal: The more you think you're entitled to, the less you will be grateful for. The bigger the sense of entitlement, the smaller the sense of gratitude. We wonder why in our world we keep getting more and more and more and keep being less and less and less grateful. This is precisely why. — John Ortberg

I was dozing on the sand, drowsy from the heat of the fire, when Naji shook me awake hours later. I rolled over and looked at him. "You're alive," he said. "Course I'm alive," I snapped. "You're the one who keeps passing out. — Cassandra Rose Clarke