Canettas Quotes & Sayings

Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation. — Letitia Baldrige

At some point on your road you have to turn and start walking back towards yourself. Or the past will pursue you, and bite the nape of your neck, leave you bleeding in the ditch. Better to turn and face it with such weapons as you possess. — Hilary Mantel

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them. — Galileo Galilei

Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done. — Sybille Bedford

I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the sake of a line to be written, my balance for the sake of a manuscript, a storm within me for the sake of a poem. I loved life itself too much for this. — Nina Berberova

I don't know,' Del said. 'I read this book. I guess you could say we were looking for a better life.'
'Did you find it?' the Fish Stick Girl asked.
'No, it was just a goddamn book. I ain't read one since. — Donald Ray Pollock

The boys feet have been up in the clouds since the win — Alan Buckley