Coltre Dizionario Quotes & Sayings

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis'
by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love. — John Barth

With great effort comes great gratification. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage. — Jimmy Dean

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of. — Henny Youngman

And my worst pains are words I cannot say — Yellowcard

If I imagine the genesis of a novelist in the form of an exemplary tale, a "myth," that genesis looks to me like a conversion story: Saul becoming Paul; the novelist being born from the ruins of his lyrical world. — Milan Kundera

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer. — Bong Joon-ho

Scarlet was in pain all night because she wouldn't let me sleep with her. — Chelsea Fine

I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact. — Janeane Garofalo

A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert. — George Stillman Hillard

Drake was going to scream. "That's my sister," he growled. He did not need to hear about her getting it on with anyone.
"Uh-huh. I was in the delivery room for the last baby. I've seen her hoo-ha. Protection. — Sean Michael

There wasn't anything wrong with these dogs. I wanted to take them all home with me. The whole damn warehouse of misery. Just strap it to my back and get the fuck out of the way. — Steven Kotler

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre. — Thomas Jane

We must occasionally remind ourselves of our brief visit on this planet. Shouldn't we try to express ourselves clearly, make a personal stamp on our environment, and pay attention to the details that make the difference? — Charlotte Moss

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord. — Khalil Gibran