Balocchi Preziosi Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule. — Mark Twain

I've always been into looking different. — Rita Ora

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care. — J.G. Holland

Marketing is bad manners - and I rely on my naturalistic and ecological instincts. Say you run into a person during a boat cruise. What would you do if he started boasting of his accomplishments, telling you how great, rich, tall, impressive, skilled, famous, muscular, well educated, efficient, and good in bed he is, plus other attributes? You would certainly run away (or put him in contact with another talkative bore to get rid of both of them). It is clearly much better if others (preferably someone other than his mother) are the ones saying good things about him, and it would be nice if he acted with some personal humility. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The beauty and magnitude of a diva's voice resides, so the iconography suggests, in her deformity. Her voice is beautiful because she herself is not-and her ugliness is interpreted as a sign of moral and social deviance. Reading biographies of divas, I can't ignore the repeated references to physical flaws-for example, Benedetta Pisaroni's "features horribly disfigured by small-pox," prompting spectators to shut their eyes "so as to hear without being condemned to see." Audiences speculated that Maria Malibran was not anatomically a woman, but an androgyne or hermaphrodite-an aberrant physique to match her voice's magic power. — Wayne Koestenbaum

To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. — A.H. Almaas

Other people's judgment doesn't have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don't. Zoey — Lisa Wingate

He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love. — Libba Bray

Big Love is the strongest force, and it connects us all. — Kelly Corbet

To "stand around with egg on one's face" is not to be confused with "standing around with one's thumb up one's fundament," which means not knowing what to do next, as does "not knowing whether to defecate or wind one's watch. — Kurt Vonnegut