Appiani Family Tomb Quotes & Sayings

I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp. — Imre Kertesz

How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive. — Suzy Kassem

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play. — Alexander Kotov

I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. — Charles Bukowski

Worried, I touched the jacket's sleeve. "You think it's too much?" I asked, working hard to keep my tone non-combative. I'd had this conversation with ex-roommates before. — Kim Harrison

Like every great writer before or since, Jonson understood that the best poets 'are both made and born'. That all great writing has to be hammered out and all great poets stand or fall by that 'second heat', their laboured revision. — James Shapiro

Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it. — Anderson Cooper

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ... it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it. — John Quincy Adams

Every great warrior must learn to endure and overcome the adversities of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But the larger point is that we can now see that depriving systems of stressors, vital stressors, is not necessarily a good thing, and can be downright harmful. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb