Langhe Region Quotes & Sayings

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is. — James Russell Lowell

I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semi-valid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees ... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life? — Richard Russo

This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the throat. — Daniel Handler

I don't think about the real future very much. — William Gibson

So for me, fashion was about standing out as an individual - and it helped me get the attention that most people try to get with publicity stunts or by doing other crazy things. But I just let the attention come to me naturally, and I think some of that has to do with my fashion. — ASAP Rocky

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. — Pablo Neruda

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. — Carol Shields

Harry had never been to London before. Although Hagrid seemed to know where he was going, he was obviously not used to getting there in an ordinary way. He got stuck in the ticket barrier on the Underground, and complained loudly that the seats were too small and the trains too slow. — J.K. Rowling

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating. — Arianna Huffington

The human race is just getting started ... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years. — Ellen Gilchrist

I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt — Susan Mallery

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate. — Adam Smith

People are morons. I don't do any social media stuff. I have people telling me all the time, "You should do Twitter, you should do this, you should get on Facebook." Are you insane? I'm not doing any of that crap. I stay the hell off that thing. Every once in a while, I send a business email, and that's it. — Michael Shannon

Who dare to love their country, and be poor. — Alexander Pope