Elio Vittorini Quotes & Sayings

You must get close to people and then you know who they are. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead.
This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death. — J.A. Konrath

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic. — E.F. Benson

It was October 2001 and I lived in New York City. I was twenty-two. I, like many of my female friends, suffered from a strange combination of post-9/11 anxiety and height-of-Sex-and-the-City anxiety. They are distinct and unnerving anxieties. The questions that ran through my mind went something like this: Should I keep a gas mask in my kitchen? Am I supposed to be able to afford Manolo Blahnik shoes? What is Barneys New York? You're trying to tell me a place called "Barneys" is fancy? Where are the fabulous gay friends I was promised? Gay guys hate me! Is this anthrax or powdered sugar? Help! Help! — Mindy Kaling

I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who's ahead in a division and everything that's going on. — Chadwick Boseman

The world pretty much sucks most of the time. But the point of life isn't to live in a world that doesn't suck. The point is to try to make it suck a little bit less. — Barry Lyga

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. — Mahatma Gandhi

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection. — Robert C. Solomon

I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life. — Patricia Velasquez

To survive, you must look good or talk even better. — Chris Cleave

I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along. — Matthew Lillard

It's time we all looked up and saw the inspiration in the world around us! — Holli Rioux

and what sunshine are you going to bring into our lives today? Shall we poison the well or burn the house down? — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences. — Craig Venter

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good. — Melody Beattie