Gangemi Custom Quotes & Sayings

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced. — Ayn Rand

When it came to my research, I never took any shortcuts. Over the past five years, I'd worked my way down the entire recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny. — Ernest Cline

The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author. — Isobelle Carmody

No, thanks. They won't go away. You take care of Ricky and Mom, and me and the lawyer'll take care of the FBI. — John Grisham

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth. — Ann Druyan

The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step. — Pablo Casals

No one gets a free ride in life. Sooner or later everyone will face despair in their lifetime. Great are those who can overcome their despair. — Timothy Pina

I needed to get familiar with sex, and it would be just as well to practise first with a boy I didn't care about too much. Then later on, if I was with someone special, I'd have more chance of doing everything right. — Kazuo Ishiguro

What?" He cut a grin at Kat when he saw the impressed look on her face. "Corporate espionage is my second greatest passion.'
"With your first being ... " Kat prompted.
"Gelato," Hale said, and turned back to the group. — Ally Carter

Brutal experience has no room for a future in which we discount the present. — Robert Palasciano

I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing. — David Henry Hwang

I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist. — Benedict Joseph Labre

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. — Joseph Addison

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no. — Barbara Corcoran

We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution. — Werner Herzog