Barresis Italian Quotes & Sayings

The one is none other than the All, the All none other than the One. — Sengcan

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information? — Simone Elkeles

Plot these days is anti-intellectual and verboten, the mark of the Philistine, the huckster with a pen. There mustn't be too much story and that should be fog-bound and shrouded in heavy symbolism, including the phallic, like a sort of covoluted charade. Symbolism now carries the day, it's the one true ladder of literary heaven. — Robert Traver

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast. — Charlie Sheen

Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection. — Spike Jonze

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am. — Joan Didion

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring. Would they feel that piece of bread in the mattress? Would he have any luck in the dispensary that evening? Would they out Buinovsky in the cells? And how did Tsezar get his hands on that warm vest? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble. — Pete Sampras

We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches itself to or underlies our masterpieces. We live in an amazing era when in spite of an absence of masters there is an explosion of masterpieces. — Rem Koolhaas

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now. — Susan Powter

The bride, the beautiful princess, a royal daughter is glorious. She waits within her chamber, dressed in a gown woven with gold. Wearing the finest garments, she is brought to the King. Her friends, her companions, follow her into the royal palace. What a joyful, enthusiastic, excited procession as they enter the palace! She comes before her King, who is wild for her!
-OLD TESTAMENT, PSALM 45 — Holly Wagner

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind. — Tahir Shah

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one ... — Peter Kreeft