Digestione Dei Quotes & Sayings

hundred miles west and one would be out of the "Bible Belt," that gospel-haunted strip of American territory in which a man must, if only for business reasons, take his religion with the straightest of faces, but in Finney County one is still within the Bible Belt borders, and therefore a person's church affiliation is the most important factor influencing his class status. — Truman Capote

What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen. — Stanley Donen

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar. — Tom Robbins

He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him. — Laozi

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sometimes I have the feeling that we're in one room with two opposite doors and each of us holds the handle of one door, one of us flicks an eyelash and the other is already behind his door, and now the first one has but to utter a word ad immediately the second one has closed his door behind him and can no longer be seen. He's sure to open the door again for it's a room which perhaps one cannot leave. If only the first one were not precisely like the second, if he were calm, if he would only pretend not to look at the other, if he slowly set the room in order as though it were a room like any other; but instead he does exactly the same as the other at his door, sometimes even both are behind the doors and the the beautiful room is empty. Franz Kafka (in a letter to Milena Jesenska) — Edmund White

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream. — Ernest Dowson

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law. — Natalie Dormer

The graveyard is an everlasting home of every man. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully. — Thomas Malory

I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter. — Pablo Neruda

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most. — Margaret Atwood

I always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything. — DJ Shadow

Most of us aren't "egomaniacs," but ego is there at the root of almost every conceivable problem and obstacle, from why we can't win to why we need to win all the time and at the expense of others. From why we don't have what we want to why having what we want doesn't seem to make us feel any better." Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 2-3 — Ryan Holladay