Castelluccio Valmaggiore Quotes & Sayings

The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness. — Emil Cioran

There is no law to say that the beds in a lodging-house must be comfortable. This would be quite an easy thing to enforce - much easier, for instance, than restrictions upon gambling. The lodging-house keepers should be compelled to provide adequate bedclothes and better mattresses, and above all to divide their dormitories into cubicles. — George Orwell

I was survivor of childhood sexual abuse in therapy for dissociated trauma memories. — Jeanne McElvaney

Seth's official reason for still smoking weed is that he doesn't want to, quote, go native, meaning end up one more suit on the train. (He in fact does wear a suit to work.) He wants them to, quote, live nicely, in a big house where family can come visit (kids, of course, in the back of his mind), but at the same time he doesn't want to get less crazy. So he'll smoke up before he goes for a run, and he's found a dentist in Danbury who still gives gas. — David Gates

When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but you don't really know. There are too many possibilities. Part of the game is how many balls you can juggle. It is to me. When you are 12 you can juggle two. Maybe when you are 50 you can juggle five. That is an interesting concept to me: how much I can put in and still make it pull together? — Lee Friedlander

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world. — Tony McCoy

As long as we continue to fight in between the jamming with all we have to save America from the current suicidal deathwish of the corrupt, criminal punks intentionally destroying the last best place. — Ted Nugent

A quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner ... — Nikolai Gogol

God should be able to wink that good. Like somebody taking your picture. Give me joy. Give me fun. Give me love.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk

Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in. — Guy Maddin

The deep roots never doubt spring will come. — Marty Rubin

I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that. — Harold Ramis