Laterza Editore Quotes & Sayings

If you have a purpose in life, you can feel six inches tall. — Terry Pratchett

Hi! handsome hunting man
Fire your little gun.
Bang! Now the animal
is dead and dumb and done.
Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again,
Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun! — Walter De La Mare

If [a student's] college's endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won't have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree. — Bill McKibben

Surely among the many outlandish successes of AMRV is that it has eradicated from human beings our original sin: hope. But I don't have AMRV, which means I still suffer from the cruelest disease of our species, terminal aspiration. — John Green

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino. — Hugh Laurie

What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. - Darcy — Jane Austen

The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy. — Buzz Aldrin

And now, the very thing that had earned her the right to call herself Adarlan's Assassin would be what sealed her doom. — Sarah J. Maas

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

There's no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself. — Erwin W. Lutzer

am a cipher under a shadow, — Nancy Horan

The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then. — May Swenson