Apennines Mountain Quotes & Sayings

A tiny sliver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon. — Ruta Sepetys

When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV. — Maggie Q

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes. — Alfred North Whitehead

Great scientists are persevering and never deterred by difficulties — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Oh I don't think making him feel welcome will be a problem at this school. Making him feel like he's not being stalked, however, may be a challenge. — Brittany DeLys

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country. — Gene Sharp

If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles to yap and nip at his heels. — Judith McNaught

People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable. — P. J. O'Rourke

We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered. — C.S. Lewis

As much as I try to grow as a lyricist, I tend to laugh at even calling myself that, because I think that my actual talents lie more in arrangements than they do words. — Zach Condon

Writing becomes a form of protest against the incontestable ravages of time. The poet takes revenge on mortality, defeating cruelty and saving what she can by thinking the unthinkable and presiding over her own creation. The joy of writing stands against the bitter knowledge of just how much of the world cannot be controlled outside the work of art. This is the art of poetry trying to kill time. Probably — Edward Hirsch

Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance. — Dean Koontz