Esatto Translation Quotes & Sayings

If there was no death, everyone would wish for it. — Sadegh Hedayat

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove. — J. B. Smoove

Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world — Mark Twain

Planning is useless ... but the process itself is indispensable. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

33 "Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time is. 34"It is like a man, away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert. 35"Therefore, be on the alert - for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, at cockcrowing, or in the morning - 36lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. 37"And what I say to you I say to all, 'Be on the alert!' — Anonymous

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo. — Rachel Sklar

He said it hit him travelling one time in the year or so before he met my mother. Whatever country of the world it was, the poor were starting to look alike, live alike, eat alike, and dress alike in the same kind of clothes all made in the same part of China. To him, it was a sign that the people had got severed from the land. — Marcel Theroux

The poetry was so ahead of its time no one has deciphered it yet — Harper Lee

What was it my father used to say? A bird stuck between two branches gets bitten on both wings. I would like to add my own saying to the list now, Father: a man stuck between two worlds lives and dies alone. — Dinaw Mengestu

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people. — James Brown

And what he had offered me was exactly everything I most wanted - to make art, to build the future, to help each other become our best selves. He honors me. — Jo Walton

There were honeys from across the city - Westport, Hollander Ridge, Gwynn Oak, Northwood. They were everything from redbone to yo-yo darkskin. The dimes among them carried Benetton bags, were dolled up like Lily Powers - finger waves, a head of dyed blond, and eyes like enchanted daggers. I saw we were outnumbered, as brothers who try the civilized way always are. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I'd just left. — Richard Stanley

Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it. — Kenneth Branagh

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? — Charles Lamb