Gregorini Obituary Quotes & Sayings

I've been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened, Mark Twain once said. — Sharon Salzberg

Raskolnikov once said: When reason fails, the devil helps! — Markus Zusak

Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game. — V.S. Pritchett

I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching. — Howard Zinn

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If home is where the heart is, the we're all just fucked. — Fall Out Boy

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species. — Leslie Stephen

Death is not the end. It is a midway state. — Darren Shan

Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it? — Alex Turner

I have a Twitter, but I'm not a tweeter ... if that really makes sense. — Kiernan Shipka

Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart — Pope John Paul II

I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost. — George Jung