Cornacchia Quotes & Sayings

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other. — Karl Shapiro

Bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever. — Barbara Tuchman

Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed. — Terry Pratchett

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Lawyers aren't the most popular people, Miss Allen ... - Murder in Hand — Celia Conrad

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. — Michel Legrand

No matter how much and how often - 'things' will never compensate for loss or absence ... no matter how guilty a parent feels. — T.F. Hodge

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets. — Stella Young

Raven could destroy me. He could twist any one of the missteps I had made around him until he owned me. That he hadn't yet didn't mean he wouldn't ever. It just meant I was of more use to him running on my own steam, making fresh mistakes to compound the old ones than under his auspices. — Hailey Edwards

Angie . . . she's the girl I breathe for. — Corinne Michaels

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years. — Jeremy Irons