Espressamente Quotes & Sayings

Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it. — Christine De Pizan

Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' - 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, and hey presto, when they spew the stories out they are not the old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old - it is the new combinations that make them new. — Salman Rushdie

I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything. — Joan Baez

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world. — Theodore Parker

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Love isn't something you can just unlearn ... no matter who you are, or who you're born to, or how much it's not returned - - Elephant Girl — Jane Devin

Traveling don't just captures beautiful scenery but it also captures life's stories — Solita

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion. — Thomas Jefferson

Maybe we should've stayed like that, just hanging out. Maybe we never should've kissed those Keeley boys. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I am optimistic that things will fall into place, and one day I'll be sitting in New York City with correct bus fare in my pocket. — David Sedaris

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films. — Jai Courtney

I was in the hospital for a month and a half of my first-grade year, so I missed a lot of school. I remember that I returned home from the hospital and there was a bicycle waiting for me in front of the house, a yellow and red bicycle with a big banana seat on it. This was 1980, and it's still my favorite bike. — Brian Littrell

Males and farts. Any species, any planet, didn't matter. We — Ilona Andrews