Bel Canto Carmen Quotes & Sayings

The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned' ... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative ... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International. — Geoffrey K. Pullum

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in. — Diego Maradona

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are. — Stephen Rea

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new. — Wilkie Collins

In a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador. — Padgett Powell

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger. — Ross Kemp

Our policies for increasing agricultural production and productivity have been scale neutral; that is, our policies are equally effective irrespective of the size of the holdings. — Sharad Pawar

unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the Son in his true relationship with the Father. The specialness of God's Sons does not stem from exclusion but from inclusion. All my brothers are special. If they believe they are deprived of anything, their perception becomes distorted. When this occurs the whole family of God, or the Sonship, is impaired in its relationships. — Foundation For Inner Peace

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me
I wasn't remotely depressed
but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179] — Dani Shapiro

Times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played. — Paul Auster

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; ... that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. — Diogenes