Ansaldi And Sons Quotes & Sayings

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole! — Steve Toltz

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison. — Pliny The Elder

Last, we may suppose that it gave pleasure both to relate and to hear wonderful stories, because such is human nature; and the pleasure can be increased, at least till the point of incredulity is reached, by exaggerating the wonderful. So some real happening at the base of an account may be reconstructed by shrinking the account down to the physically possible. — Ramsay MacMullen

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. — Albert Einstein

And Jazz snapped.
He didn't snap the way a normal person might snap. A normal person would fling his arms around and stomp his feet and rant at the top of his lungs, bellowing to the sky. There might be tears, from a normal person.
Jazz went quiet. He darted out one hand and grabbed the wrist of the paramedic who had been trying to cuff him and pulled the man close, holding his gaze.
In a moment, he channeled every last drop of (his father).
Who am I? I'll tell you. I'm the local psychopath, and if you don't save my best friend's life, I will hunt down everyone you've ever cared about in your life and make you watch while I do things to them that will have you begging me to kill them. That's who I am. — Barry Lyga

Because of the Saviors Atonement, repentance is a beautiful word and a marvelous refuge. — Theodore M. Burton

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting? — Peter Doig

A fabulous pair of shoes? I have to have willpower. — Keshia Knight Pulliam

A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart. — Charles Grandison Finney

On Salem's Lot: " My favorite vampire story ever. I first read this 20 years ago, and I can still quote lines from it.
"You have been ill-used, Mr Bryant."
"I will see you sleep like the dead, teacher."
"The boy makes ten of you, false priest."
Fuck twilight. Seriously ... — Jay Kristoff

Margaritas are my favorite. And my fiance makes them just perfect. — Garance Dore

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. — Ralph Connor