Cucchia Quotes & Sayings

And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered. — Edward Felten

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction. — Simon Hoggart

Good TV is not just TV about good behavior. — Cathleen Schine

What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Antonia: I meant to tell you, and then forgot: call a spade a spade, and say 'arse', 'prick', 'cunt', and 'fuck', otherwise the only people who'll understand you will be the scholars of the Capranica think tank - you and your 'rose in the ring', your 'obelisk in the arsenal' your 'leek in the garden', your 'bolt in the door', your 'key in the lock', your 'pestle in the mortar', your 'nightingale in the nest', your 'sapling in the ditch', your 'syringe in the flap-valve', your 'sword in the sheath'; and the same goes for 'the stake', 'the crozier', the parsnip', 'the little monkey', 'his thingummy', 'her thingummy', 'the apples', 'the leaves of the mass book', 'that thingy', 'the graceful whatyamacallit', 'that whatsit', 'that doings', 'that latest news', 'the handle', 'the dart', 'that carrot', 'the root' and all the other shit that comes out of your mouth, but there you go, pussyfooting around. Let your yes mean yes, your no, no, and otherwise, just shut it. — Pietro Aretino

Do we fulfill our obligations by being practical all the time? — James Plunkett

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete. — Ronald Reagan

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. — Victor Hugo

I don't want people to think they have to like me because I'm on TV every other minute. — Katy B

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does. — P. J. O'Rourke

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate. — Christopher Paolini