Frassino Mantova Quotes & Sayings

If I can protect, I want to protect. — CLAMP

For years many in the oil-rich states argued that their enormous wealth would bring modernizations. They pointed to the impressive appetites of Saudis and Kuwaitis for things Western, from McDonald's hamburgers to Rolex watches to Cadillac limousines. but importing Western good is easy; importing the inner stuffing of modern society - a free market, political parties, accountability, the rule of law - is difficult and even dangerous for the ruling elites — Fareed Zakaria

... it wasn't pretend, I wasn't in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It's the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin. — Miranda July

At that point in time, there were three things in life that I knew for certain: (1) I was a girl who'd never met a site she couldn't hack or a code she couldn't break, (2) I had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital, and (3) I would without question chop off my own hands before I'd come within five feet of a pom-pom — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic. — Tabitha Soren

Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music. — Jim Butcher

And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could become. — Veronica Roth

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit. — Theresa May

How can you find answers, if you do not ask questions? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational. — Boris Kodjoe

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender. — Steven Squyres

The Lord gives us wings
He gives us a stomach
we can fly or vomit — Patti Smith

I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time. — Sally Kirkland