Centesimi Di Quotes & Sayings

It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher. — Steven Pinker

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law? — Calvin Coolidge

Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated "toy" continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry. — Michael Almereyda

My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over. — Elizabeth Perkins

A passion thwarted will often go astray. — Garth Nix

I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist. — Christian Boltanski

The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow. — Robert Scoble

By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written anything in almost two years, and writing, I have discovered, is a muscle: if it isn't exercised, it will atrophy. — Jane Green

Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality. — Asa Don Brown

There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt. — Paul Westhead

They set great store by their gardens ... Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention ... concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte. — Thomas More

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks. — Erica Jong

They were roundly dismissed as extremists - as if nothing so extreme could possibly be true. — Karen Thompson Walker

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in. — Jeff Goldblum

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. — Eric Bogosian