Detti Italiani Quotes & Sayings

It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what it is that you love to do, and I'm happy that I've sort of discovered something that makes me really happy. — Haylie Duff

Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or more were effaced, and there he was, the alert and predatory sub-human, further from what she believed man should be like than the naked savage, because the savage was tractable, while this creature, wearing the armor of his own rigid barbaric culture, consciously defied progress. And that was what Stenham saw, too; to him the boy was a perfect symbol of human backwardness, and excited his praise precisely because he was "pure": there was no room in his personality for anything that mankind had not already fully developed long ago. To him he was a consolation, a living proof that today's triumph was not yet total; he personified Stenham's infantile hope that time might still be halted and man sent back to his origins. — Paul Bowles

Manchester United breathe football. When I have to make hard decisions, I always listen to little boy inside me and what he wants. That little boy was screaming for United. — Robin Van Persie

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status — Jonathon Porritt

Yes the minute we ask you." The suspect considered this. "But I wants to be a witch," she wailed. The male Them exchanged exhausted glances. This was out of their league. "If you just say no," said Pepper, "you can have my Sindy stable set. I've never ever used it," she added, glaring at the other Them and daring them to make a comment. "You have used it," snapped her sister, "I've seen it and it's all worn out and the bit where you put the hay is broke and - " Adam gave a magisterial cough. "Art thou a witch, viva espana?" he repeated. The sister took a look at Pepper's face, and decided not to chance it. "No," she decided. — Terry Pratchett

It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, Wow, I'm really cooking. — Tony Bennett

Nothing is more difficult than knowing what you really think. — Ben Okri

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you. — Mackenzie Davis

Christian mentality is a victorious mentality — Sunday Adelaja

Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention. — Quentin Tarantino

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. — Albert Camus

I think the government is incompetent, not evil. — Adam Carolla