Giulio Paolini Quotes & Sayings

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. — Susan Sontag

The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife. — Benjamin Franklin

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered. — Edward De Bono

Or else the cloud hovered, having barely left the lips, dense and slow, and suggested another vision: the exhalations that hang over the roofs of the metropolises, the opaque smoke that is not scattered, the hood of miasmata that weighs over the bituminous streets. Not the labile mists of memory nor the dry transparence, but the charring of burned lives that forms a scab on the city, the sponge swollen with vital matter that no longer flows, the jam of past, present, future that blocks existences calcified in the illusion of movement: this is what you would find at the end of your journey. — Italo Calvino

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something." — Saint Francis De Sales