Gasparri Franco Quotes & Sayings

I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere. — Jenna Ushkowitz

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists. — David Deutsch

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. — Alexis Carrel

Mrs. Horowitz said, "It is inexcusable that humans think they can murder other animals because they murder themselves. I must tell you, I hate humans. They terrify me."
"They should," I continued. "I interviewed Yehudi Menuhin the other day. — David Dubal

If I have a bow and arrow, Commander, I don't shoot a padded shaft to my target's left in order to express my annoyance. I fire a steel-tipped arrow into his leg. — Peter David

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now. — Jessica Lange

Responding to Wright's critique, Hurston claimed that she had wanted at long last to write a black novel, and "not a treatise on sociology." It is this urge that resonates in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved, and in Walker's depiction of Hurston as our prime symbol of "racial health - a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings, a sense that is lacking in so much black writing and literature." In a tradition in which male authors have ardently denied black literary paternity, this is a major development, one that heralds the refinement of our notion of tradition: Zora and her daughters are a tradition-within-the-tradition, a black woman's voice. — Zora Neale Hurston

Everyone's surprised when they meet me. I guess it's because I've played tough cookies for so long ... It's what I do best. I'm not sure I could pull off a genteel Southern belle. — Rhea Perlman

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack. — Antonio Banderas