Devito Salvadore Quotes & Sayings

That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment. — Erri De Luca

At twenty-something he went off to London. Instinctively, he had already trained himself to the habit of feigning that he was somebody, so that his "nobodiness" might not be discovered. In London he found the calling he had been predestined to; he became an actor, that person who stands upon a stage and plays at being another person, for an audience of people who play at taking him for that person. — Anonymous

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood. — Anthony Browne

You've got to know thyself, date thyself and most importantly be thyself. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

You can't open anything after your 50. You have to wait 'til people stop by the house. 'Oh my God, I'm glad you're here.' — Louie Anderson

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon

Like many people, I consider myself an incurable romantic, and there is a part of me that will always believe in walking off into the sunset to live happily ever after. When I was younger, like many children, I assumed I would get married, live in a nice house, and have a couple of kids. I also assumed this very traditional achievement would bring me endless happiness and romance. So much so, that during my college years I considered girls engaged by graduation to be the epitome of success. Perhaps needless to say, I was not one of those girls. — Robi Ludwig

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion. — Richard Beymer

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place. — Orhan Pamuk

On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission. — Martin McGuinness

I want you so badly it's like a hunger that gnaws at me endlessly. It doesn't go away ... You have no fucking clue."
"Then do something about it," I whispered. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. — Joni Mitchell

Logic has nothing to do with oppression. — Gloria Steinem

She thought of herself as his strength; in a world of shadows, the indisputable reality to which he could always repair. And, again, for all that had come, she could not regret this. She had tried, but she had never been and was not now, even tonight, truly sorry. Where, then, was her repentance? And how could God hear her cry? — James Baldwin