Coltivare Menu Quotes & Sayings

I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in ... I'm not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this. — Jenny Offill

I knew, for instance, that rooms where people slept exuded peculiarly human smells just as the goat pen smelt goaty and the cattle kraal bovine. It was common knowledge among the younger girls at school that the older girls menstruated into sundry old rags which they washed and reused and washed again. I knew, too, that the fact of menstruation was a shamefully unclean secret that should not be allowed to contaminate immaculate male ears by indiscreet reference to this type of first in their presence. — Tsitsi Dangarembga

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag. — Charlie Munger

It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else. — Noah Taylor

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions ... — George Washington

For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her. — Nikki Sixx

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown! — Brooke Burns

The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you. — Faraaz Kazi

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. — Vladimir Nabokov

Bring your substance deep down to me, heavily, covering my eyes, let your existence cut across me, supposing that my heart is destroyed. — Pablo Neruda

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years laterand it's still doing damage. — Henry Rollins

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. — Amy Goodman