Convenzione Dellaja Quotes & Sayings

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. — John Ruskin

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have. — Karen Abbott

What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain? — Bette Greene

He'd passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and then disavowing twenty years of memories. He would banish that bitch from his heart if it meant cutting her out with his own dagger. And when at last he allowed himself to grieve, he did so silently and unwillingly, his tears hidden by the darkness, his rage congealing into a core of ice. — Sharon Kay Penman

You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy! — Jeaniene Frost

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar. The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. — Seth Berkley

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it. — J. C. Chandor

It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26) — Henry Miller

The first day ofschool was always so exciting because you get new shoes and a new backpack, but by the last day of school, you're like, "I don't care. I will wear sweats. Am I done yet?" — Meaghan Martin

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist. — Jandy Nelson

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee? — Burt Lancaster

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work. — Nhat Hanh

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating. — Milan Kundera