Cronache Ercolanesi Quotes & Sayings

I don't engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when people hate my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it. — Hilarie Burton

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall — E.J. Jackson

I understand that at times, life takes us in different directions than we planned. — Nichole Chase

Among those dazzled by the Administration team was Vice-President Lyndon Johnson. After attending his first Cabinet meeting he went back to his mentor Sam Rayburn and told him with great enthusiasm how extraordinary they were, each brighter than the next, and that the smartest of them all was that fellow with the Stacomb on his hair from the Ford Motor Company, McNamara. "Well, Lyndon," Mister Sam answered, "you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say, but I'd feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once." It is my favorite story in the book, for it underlines the weakness of the Kennedy team, the difference between intelligence and wisdom, between the abstract quickness and verbal fluency which the team exuded, and the true wisdom, which is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience. Wisdom for a few of them came after Vietnam. — David Halberstam

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! — Plato

It's okay to bribe people with books, right? — Eliezer Yudkowsky

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: Look out! They're about to smack you around again! — Molly Ivins

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me. — Andrew Greeley

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new. — Henry Vaughan

I'm not a big fan of western movies and I really don't like cowboy-indian movies. I have never watched them. — Heath Ledger

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance ... — John Calvin