Civitanova Quotes & Sayings

The duke understood the danger in having an important conversation too often in one's head before having it with the intended party. — Miranda Davis

A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities. — Debasish Mridha

A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon. — James Hamilton-Paterson

You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin. — Ann Brashares

Artists are strange people. They make the world a beautiful place, and make others feel good, but they are a bunch of lonely people. Artists are people with unfulfilled, unrealistic dreams, lonely, and always searching for perfection. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

In the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all. — Sally Helgesen

Zeno gave his lectures on the stoa, the covered walkways or porticos that surrounded the Athenian marketplace. His followers were first called Zenonians and later Stoics. He presided over his school for fifty-eight years and the manner of his death at the age of ninety-eight is bizarre. One day, as he was leaving the school, he tripped and fell, breaking a toe. Lying there in pain, he struck the ground with his fist and quoted a line from the Niobe of Timotheus, "I come of my own accord; why then call me?" He died on the spot through holding his breath. — Simon Critchley

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other. — Lawrence Kasdan