Casali Di Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we all got along. If there were no terrorism, Islamophobia, Western hypocrisy, corrupt government in African countries (especially Liberia), sexism, nativism, people like Donald Trump, stereotypes, war, Capitalism, Communism, Marxism and xenophobia. — Henry Johnson Jr

I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it. — Padgett Powell

Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith. — Pat Robertson

Maybe it's an artistic genius thing. People who go so deep inside themselves, especially when they're working, that they seem like sleepwalkers when they emerge. Traces of unconsciousness seem to cling to them, lending them an otherworldly sheen. — Susan Juby

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome. — Jan Tschichold

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV. — Paula Cole

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan. — Jonathan Franzen

I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way. — Ryan Gosling

The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't. — Stephen King

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them. — Rineke Dijkstra

Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh against the withered thighs of old white ladies in public conveyances a great deal and eliciting more than one shriek of panic. Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless. — John Kennedy Toole

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone. — Lenny Bruce

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet. — Ama Ata Aidoo