Cravatta A Farfalla Quotes & Sayings

She went up on tiptoes, just so she could look down on him. — Michael Dobbs

Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence. — Meister Eckhart

Where, My Lord, is music bred - upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man. — Karen Blixen

There was no slavery in the free city of Pentos. Nonetheless, they were slaves. — George R R Martin

I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedlessly one might say-or 'fearlessly'- into my own future: this time of utter raw anguished loss. Though I may have had, since adolescence, a kind of intellectual/literary precocity, I had not experienced much;nor would I experience much until I was well into middle age-the illnesses and deaths of my parents, this unexpected death of my husband. We play at paste till qualified for pearl says Emily Dickinson. Playing at paste is much of our early lives. And then, with the violence of a door slammed shut by wind rushing through a house, life catches up with us. — Joyce Carol Oates

Everything changes, today's tears are tomorrow's absurdities, after all. — Joan D. Vinge

What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine.
What is poetry! And you are asking me?
Poetry ... is you. — Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous - and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what's happening. — Dan Gillmor

I have just started Vera Brittian's Testament of Youth - have yet to see the film.
It's a great inspiration in many ways, but the detail written without sentiment and first hand, gives the most moving account of the WW1 from every perspective. — Jan Hunter

When I studied at Juilliard, I did a lot of pushups and became this diesel machine. I was really big and was like, 'This is not a good look for an ingenue.' — Rutina Wesley

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune. — Diablo Cody

Ephraim lifted the top of the trunk. Neatly stacked were mementoes from what seemed like hundreds of journeys. Right on top was an etching of the Eiffel tower next to an African mask that looked at him with surprised eyes. He reached in a little deeper and unearthed a small teapot decorated with blue drawings just like the kind his grandmother collected and kept in a locked china cabinet. — Megan Frazer Blakemore

I like European and South American literature, but mostly I read nonfiction. — Jessa Crispin