Angiolino Musicante Quotes & Sayings

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story. — Antonio Damasio

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence. — Charles Spurgeon

And vampires never sparkle unless they just ate a stripper. — James R Tuck

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil. — Anil Kapoor

A man of tao remains ordinary, absolutely ordinary. Nobody knows who he is, nobody knows what he carries within him, what treasure. He never advertises, he never tries to display. Why do we advertise? Because of the ego. You are not satisfied with yourself. You are satisfied only when others appreciate you. Kohinoor is not enough. You may have a valuable stone, but it is not enough; others must appreciate it. — Osho

Birth, not death, is the hard loss. — Louise Gluck

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. — Virginia Woolf

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep. — Sophie Cookson

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? — Czeslaw Milosz

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. — Leo Tolstoy

When the norms that made the old institutions useful began to unwind, and the leaders abandoned their posts, the Roosevelt Republic that had reigned for almost half a century came undone. The void was filled by the default force in American life, organized money. — George Packer

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option. — Deborah Feldman

If the mind, which rules the body, ever forgets itself so far as to trample upon its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite its oppressor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Technology is super smart and also completely dumb. It doesn't know what you're putting on there. It works almost in an automated fashion. — Lance Ulanoff

The moral views now associated in the secularist mind with superstition and ignorance in fact follow inexorably from a consistent application of the metaphysical ideas we've traced back through Aquinas and the other Scholastic thinkers to Plato and Aristotle, the very greatest of the Greek founders of the Western intellectual tradition. — Edward Feser