Ciuro Caldani Quotes & Sayings

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe. — Horace

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers. — Philip Neri

Saturday is a day for the spa. RELAX, indulge, enjoy, and love yourself, too. — Ana Monnar

My heart lost rhythm at the flicker of phantom in the whiskey-stained voice. — Iceberg Slim

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy. — Gary Gulman

violence cannot be everlasting. Sooner or later it has to go, if not through wisdom, definitely through decrepitude, which comes on with years, whether one wants it or not. — R.K. Narayan

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework. — Ken Kesey

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice. — Freddie Prinze Jr.

I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done. — Rose Schneiderman

And so, yet again, we crush the blossom in our hand, lift our gaze from the tumbling petals, and ask the world, 'Where, then, is this beauty you promised?' But — Steven Erikson

I truly haven't. You've messed up my mojo. — Beckie Stevenson

The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word "integration." To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members.
Now, at all times, where there are marked physical differences, especially of colour, integration is difficult though, over a period, not impossible. There are among the Commonwealth immigrants who have come to live here in the last fifteen years or so, many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction.
But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one. — Enoch Powell

You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don't embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life difficulties might serve to benefit and enhance your writing. That's damaging. Counterintuitive. Writing can be so incredibly lonely, and when you're alone with your thoughts for long enough to produce a hundred thousand words of your own headspace, it can be scary. Suffering is not good for your art. Mental health care is. So talk to someone other than your future readers about the problems you are facing. Someone you know and trust. There is no shame in asking for help. — Bryant A. Loney