Gramscis Prison Quotes & Sayings

Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something that comes with age or that might come with age which has to do with reflecting on experience. — Edward Hirsch

They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and sunlight. Sometimes they brush their teeth in streams. — James Salter

A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell. — Evan Esar

Never had Iseult asked for anything. Not since learning as a little girl that rusted locks on a door were the best she could ever hope for.
Then she'd met Safi, and secretly, silently, so deep no one would ever find it, Iseult had started to hope that her life might turn into something. Little dreams weren't so bad. Iseult could brush against them from time to time, and no one would ever be the wiser. — Susan Dennard

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy. — Paul Shaffer

The world is hard and you can't have everything. — Stephen King

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. — Sitting Bull

The propensity to say and do dumb things, and even wicked things, is simply part of human nature. One can blame the Church or Christianity for such things only on the thoroughly unwarranted assumption that Christianity claims to have abolished human nature. The truth is that Christianity, and the Catholic Church in particular, is the mother of Western civilization, with all it strengths and weaknesses, including its frequently exaggerated penchant for self-criticism. Like others who know what it is to be a mother, she is not surprised, although sometimes disappointed, when she is blamed for everything and thanked for nothing. — Richard John Neuhaus

A decent moustache can intimidate a man, while a great moustache can frighten an army. — Anya Wylde

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great. — Rick Warren

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress. — Ellen Muth

First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is often maligned (in this book, for instance) — Clive Barker