Goliarda Sapienzas Quotes & Sayings

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto. — Condoleezza Rice

There was a period when I was getting a lot of banana bread, because I mentioned someone cooked me banana bread, and then everyone cooked me baked stuff, and I would take it to the hotel, and it was making me fat. — Marc Maron

The sad and poignant thing for Johnson, however, was not his anti-intellectualism in itself but his need to be accepted by the very people he scorned. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries. — Jeanette Winterson

I don't really need a lot of help from a director. — Christina Ricci

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life. Though you have but a little room, do you fancy that God is not there, too, and it is impossible to live therein a life that shall be somewhat lofty? Do you imagine that you can possibly be alone, that love can be a thing one knows, a thing one sees; that events can be weighed like the gold and silver of ransom? — Maurice Maeterlinck

But there were worse things than being left. — Cassandra Clare

We free our own minds
each time we pause to wonder
whether we are free. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I want to fall asleep to the sound of his heart beating in the atmosphere. — Tahereh Mafi

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school. — Marilynne Robinson

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it. — Loretta Young

As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment (p. 290). — Alexis De Tocqueville

Let's talk politics, to please Guy!"
"Sounds fine," said Mrs. Bowles. "I voted last election, same as everyone, and I laid it on the line
for President Noble. I think he's one of the nicest-looking men who ever became president."
"Oh, but the man they ran against him!"
"He wasn't much, was he? Kind of small and homely and he didn't shave too close or comb his
hair very well."
"What possessed the 'Outs' to run him? You just don't go running a little short man like that
against a tall man. Besides -he mumbled. Half the time I couldn't hear a word he said. And the
words I did hear I didn't understand!"
"Fat, too, and didn't dress to hide it. No wonder the landslide was for Winston Noble. Even their
names helped. Compare Winston Noble to Hubert Hoag for ten seconds and you can almost
figure the results. — Ray Bradbury

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all. — John Ortberg