Langhe Nebbiolo Quotes & Sayings

Children, awkward, isolate, their bodies crammed to bursting with caffein and sugar and pop music and cologne and perfume and hairgel and pimple cream and growth hormone-treated hamburger meat and premature sex drives and costly, fleeting, violent sublimations. It's all part of the conspiracy ... all of it trying to convince them that they're here to be trained for lives of adventure and glamor and heroism, when in fact they're here only to be trained for more of the same, for lives of plunking in the quarters, paying a premium for the never-ending series of shabby fantasies to come, the whole lifelong laser light show of glamorous degradation and habitual novelty and fun-loving murder and global isolation. — Alex Shakar

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. — Edgar Allan Poe

See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were. — Bob Goff

Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn't meant for you. Never violate people's privacy. You will save yourself a lot of anguish. — Edward Kennedy

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind. — Bodhidharma

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance. — Robert Ardrey

I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see how all those stories were in some way one story: a simple story about being alive, and being a man; a story that, simple as it was, couldn't itself be told. — John Crowley

I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just another normal. — Lea Salonga

Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever? — Steven Michael Quezada

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives. — Thomas Merton