Dellalba Gianfranco Quotes & Sayings

I've never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it's almost never true altruism. — Donald J. Trump

Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane ... — Henry David Thoreau

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies. — Zubin Mehta

I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'. — Jennifer Haigh

I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England. — Peter Shaffer

I frowned. You mean Set's got, like, other evil gods on speed dial? — Rick Riordan

Heaven is love, then hell is love, too. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The trees were set close and from the perimeter of that parcel of land I could not see the school hidden within them. Look up here, I thought I heard someone say to me. When I did look up, I saw that the branches overhead were without leaves, and through their intertwining mesh the sky was fully visible. How bright and dark it was at the same time. Bright with a high, full moon shining among the spreading clouds, and dark with the shadows mingling within those clouds - a slowly flowing mass of mottled shapes, a kind of unclean outpouring from the black sewers of space. — Thomas Ligotti