Carnevali Modern Quotes & Sayings

...What is it that he was? Was the idea he had for himself of lesser validity or of greater validity than someone else's idea of what he was supposed to be? Can such things even be known? But the concept of life as something whose purpose is concealed, of custom as something that may not allow for thought, of society as dedicated to a picture of itself that may be badly flawed, of an individual as real apart and beyond the social determinants defining him, which may indeed be what to him seem most unreal--in short, every perplexity pumping the human imagination seemed to lie somewhat outside her own unswerving allegiance to a canon of time-honored rules. — Philip Roth

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list. — John Berger

When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in. — Shaquille O'Neal

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else. — Salman Rushdie

In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing ... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight. — Camille Paglia

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness — Dante Alighieri

There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor. — Dinah Washington

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. — Jon Meacham

Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer. - LIET-KYNES, — Brian Herbert

The press creates a caricature. — Marianne Williamson

He gazed at Reef in almost unconcealed envy, failing completely to recognize the darker thing, the desire, the desperate need to create a radius of annihilation that, if it could not include the ones who deserved it, might as well include himself. Webb — Thomas Pynchon

The only thing that matters is us. I don't want to hide us anymore. Veronica, I want you. I want all of you. All the time, every day, until the end. I want to tell the world just how much you mean to me because you are my world. — Karina Halle

When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things went bad and change something! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning ... set your intention every day ... if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams. — Oprah Winfrey