Ciaccias Deli Quotes & Sayings

Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery? — Paul Cude

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative — Neil MacGregor

Some of us see endless darkness and get scared. Some of us see the joyful moon and dancing stars. — Debasish Mridha

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal. — John McCormack

Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics. — Archie Kalokerinos

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. — Harvey Cushing

Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook ... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes. — Rebecca Solnit

Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers. — Barbara Kingsolver

You have not succeeded in your experiments, that is all there is to it. — Louis Pasteur

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am. — Pete Sampras

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless. — Amy Bloom

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. — E. M. Forster

I had started out with the intent to make a love story and something not so grave or so dark.So I went into this saying, "I want to do a love story, not to be seen with rose-colored glasses, but not as heavy." As it turned out, it surprised me the place where it led actually was something so painful. I identified so much with them that I experienced a lot of that suffering as well. — Abdellatif Kechiche

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. — Walter Bagehot