Desideria Corsini Quotes & Sayings

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually. — Todd Haynes

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people. — Billy Graham

The less explaining you do the less people speculate. — M. V. Heberden

he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule? — Octavia E. Butler

As the helicopter fell, its dead rotors started to spin, and Ruvola used that energy to slow the aircraft down. Like downshifting a car on a hill, a hovering auto-rotation is a way of dissipating the force of gravity by feeding it back through the engine. By the time the helicopter hit the water it had slowed to a manageable speed, and all the torque had been bled out of the rotors; — Sebastian Junger

... discovering how freaky the freaks can be - and wonder at the certainty that I will never stop wondering. — Lola Smirnova

Middle grade fiction shapes the lives of future adults. It is one of the most powerful forces in literature. Those who use their intellect to create works of fiction for the middle grade audience do so with an incredible privilege and responsibility as authors. For that reason, we are glad to post our reviews of their great efforts here on Goodreads. — Edward Gordon

The Right of Every Woman is to be Loved
I am all Woman — Neil Mach

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself. — Baltasar Gracian

Of all the books I have delivered to the presses, none, I think, is as personal as the straggling collection mustered for this hodgepodge, precisely because it abounds in reflections and interpolations.
Few things have happened to me, and I have read a great many. Or rather, few things have happened to me more worth remembering than Schopenhauer's thought or the music of England's words. — Jorge Luis Borges

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve. — Elbert Hubbard

Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest. — Philip Yancey

As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others. — Ann Goldstein