Civitella Ranieri Quotes & Sayings

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?"
"Fantastically delicious cinnamon things? — Erin Morgenstern

If one is to use public funds he must accept a responsibility to the public. — Thomas Francis Jr.

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. — Ann Coulter

I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick. — H.P. Lovecraft

People get old, get sick and die. Or they die suddenly. Or their deaths drag on forever. My friend Tory is dying a slow, excruciatingly painful death of bone cancer. Eight friends have died of breast cancer. Polar bears are dying. Honeybees are vanishing. The oceans are drying up. There is a part of me that wants my money back. That wants to say, 'I didn't sign up for this. I don't like the way this whole thing is set up and I won't participate in it. — Geneen Roth

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now. — Paul Konerko

When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep. — Louis C.K.

I have this terrific make-up man. But he's expensive. I have to bring him in from Lourdes. — Bob Hope

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse. — Daniel Kahneman

Of course, one cannot get to know a country like the United States in short visits. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria. — Jane Hirshfield