Desenez Desene Quotes & Sayings

power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini's grasp like joy from a young widowed heart. The — Mark T. Sullivan

Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher. — Jack Kornfield

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people. — Yo-Yo Ma

Whatever floats your boat ... or finds your lost remote ... — Andre Benjamin

The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges. — Nathaniel Branden

Peter Kemp observed that 'Literature owes an enormous debt to Henry James's bowels.' As the correspondence revealed, the young Henry suffered from chronic constipation. To alleviate it his parents dispatched him on a grand tour of Europe (doubtless hoping the foreign food would loosen his entrails). — Anonymous

Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough

If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something. — Marlon Wayans

As someone who has shot in most disciplines, I can tell the House that when one is lying on ones stomach in Bisley with a sling round ones arm to hold the rifle steady, it is hard enough to hit the target on the right spot even when it is obligingly staying still. Foxes do not stay still. They move with remarkable rapidity. — Richard Page

Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do something it did not want to do, it would fight him, and his chisel would slip, or dig in too deeply, spoiling the shapes. But once he had got to know the lump of rock in front of him he could transform it. The more difficult the task, the more fascinated he was. He was beginning to feel that the decorative carving demanded by Tom was too easy. Zigzags, lozenges, dogtooth, spirals and plain roll moldings bored him, and even these leaves were rather stiff and repetitive. He wanted to curve natural-looking foliage, pliable and irregular, and copy the different shapes of real leaves, oak and ash and birch. — Ken Follett

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him? — Zhuangzi

Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

We have that feeling that life could have been other, different, better in a way impossible to articulate, yet we sense there was another road we missed. — Chloe Thurlow