Lampedusa Author Quotes & Sayings

When I was a young woman, before I moved to New York, working in small, non-Equity theatres in the Midwest, I did a lot of musicals in my early to mid-20s. — Jayne Houdyshell

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality. — Burt Lancaster

Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best. — Henry Mintzberg

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire

Batman doesn't have to put up with this shit
why should we? — Caitlin Moran

The horse world is populated by two kinds of people: those who love horses, and those who exploit horses and the people who love them. — Tami Hoag

Another, more fluid metaphor for the world of thought gradually suggested itself to him, derived from his former voyages at sea. A philosopher who was trying to consider human understanding in all its aspects would behold beneath him a mass molded in calculable curves, streaked by currents which could be charted, and deeply furrowed by the pressure of winds and the heavy, inert weight of water. It seemed to him that the shapes which the mind assumes are like those great forms, born of undifferentiated water, which assail or replace each other on the surface of the deep; each concept collapses, eventually, to merge with its very opposite, like two waves breaking against each other only to subside into the same single line of white foam. — Marguerite Yourcenar

And sometimes," she added, in slightly hushed tones, like she was letting me in on a secret, "if you don't feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won't be able to tell the difference." (Bronwyn) — Morgan Matson

By maintaining an active feedback system at every stage of a startup, founders can reduce their burn rate, increase their virality coefficient, and retain key hires. — Jay Samit

I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world. — Shelly Crane

And now the past stalked about like a purposeless stray animal among heaps of rubbish and junk that no one wanted. — Jussi Adler-Olsen

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have. — Frances Mayes