Apicella Testa Quotes & Sayings

With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You could cut ... all that out."
"You mean the men. Perhaps I could. I'm quite sure I could. But you see, Joe, I don't want to. What you call unnatural is the very essence of my nature. — Mel Bossa

There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all. — Maude Meagher

You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation. — Annie Proulx

Who but knows
How it goes!
Life's a last year's Nightingale,
Love's a last year's rose. — William Ernest Henley

There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that is difficult to define. Sort of like the scent and feeling of just-washed bed linens at the moment you slide your legs between them. — Debra Ginsberg

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold. — Joni Mitchell

He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value ... he has given to me myself. — Hermann Hesse

I'd never been one for prayer, but when things got serious, I put it into overdrive, imagining God on the other end thinking, hmmm . . . Emma doesn't usually pray. This must be serious. — Karen McQuestion

The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange. — Hunter S. Thompson

Richard Feynman once wrote, "If you ever hear yourself saying, 'I think I understand this,' that means you don't. — Steven Pinker

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school. — Jonathan Kozol