Espagueti Blanco Quotes & Sayings

Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization ... William's book combines real history and fictional constructs to tell a revealing story that makes us reconsider the meaning of familiar concepts. — Julian Baggini

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
From the Introduction — Orson Scott Card

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. — Dean Koontz

Instead of complaining about what you don't like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves. — Napoleon Hill

I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948. — Jimmy Carter

I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'. — Tariq Ramadan

If I was straight and Tina not the bitch from hell, one would assume we were almost flirting. But I was gay and Tina was the bitch from hell. We were not flirting. — T.J. Klune

When you believe, the whole world with all of her positive-synchronized power dares to help you. — Debasish Mridha

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. — Virgil

What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu — Tad Williams

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute. — Barry McGuire

I became one of the stately homos of England. — Quentin Crisp

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time. — Zubin Mehta