Dellapergola Quotes & Sayings

A large house left deserted by those who have filled its rooms with emotions and life, expresses a silence, a quality all its own. A house unfurnished and empty seems less impressively silent. The fact of its devoidness of sound is upon the whole more natural. But carpets accustomed to the pressure of constantly passing feet, chairs and sofas which have held human warmth, draperies used to the touch of hands drawing them aside to let in daylight, pictures which have smiled back at thinking eyes, mirrors which have reflected faces passing hourly in changing moods, elate or dark or longing, walls which have echoed back voices - all these things when left alone seem to be held in strange arrest, as if by some spell intensifying the effect of the pause in their existence. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea. — Madame De Stael

Now the birds & trees & the moroccan kitties are my muse. — Craig Thompson

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken. — Unknown

You certainly don't fuck about trying to ride manta rays. — Douglas Adams

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible. — Poppy Z. Brite

Berta, like so many Great Russians, thought of Kiev and the surrounding provinces as a Russian outpost: provincial, backward, but Russified to some extent. She had a respect for both the Polish and German influences there, but agreed with the authorities that the Ukrainian culture and language had little to offer. It was banned in the schools and in the government institutions and was thought to be the purlieu of reprobates, lazy slum dwellers, and rustics. Berta was born in Little Russia, a small fact that she never bothered to share with anyone of consequence. She was a Great Russian, as anyone could see by her fierce accomplishments, tasteful dress, and overall refinement. — Susan Sherman

If you even try to die, I'll kill you myself, Tucker had said in a choky voice — Josh Lanyon

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change. — John Kinsella

I was seventeen when I moved to New York. I was nineteen when I joined the main company. I was going through a lot. Just becoming an adult and just wanting to fit in, be accepted, and be in common with the other dancers. — Misty Copeland

In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan. — Penelope Cruz