Ciatso Italy Quotes & Sayings

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons. — Tom Clancy

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus. — Anne Graham Lotz

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. — Victoria Woodhull

I always think that it's wrong to put images of my protagonists on the cover of my novels because readers can identify with characters only if they are given the chance to imagine them independently. — Orhan Pamuk

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself. — L. Ron Hubbard

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. — Benjamin Disraeli

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. — Connie Francis

Lips kissed, kissing kissed. — James Joyce

What are you, fire refusing to be named? I will tell you what you are not.
You are not an afterthought.
You are not a magic lamp whose only purpose is to fulfill the desires of another. You are not an oracle or a muse that can be used, exhausted, tapped dry and left convulsing on a mountaintop. You are not a lonely night or a place to hide secrets when no one else is watching. You are not a bodiless voice that whispers comfort to the demons of desperate men, not a vessel from which they can thieve their vitality.
& my god, you are certainly not a second choice. — Amanda Torroni

You have dreams, and then you grow up to realize dreams don't mean shit. — Christina Escamilla

You and I, we can be the best of friends, but don't expect to find your fairy tale under my roof. You got me? — J.M. Darhower