Leonila Ferraris Quotes & Sayings

I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite. — Michael Dirda

Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true. — David A. Adler

How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking in nourishment, yet it is well defended, but ears - ears are a prey to every onslaught. — Elias Canetti

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. — Federica Montseny

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer. — C.S. Lewis

There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy. — Toby Jones

Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but rather live in fear of it's own potential — Ferdinand Porsche

Without conscious thought I stepped behind the altar, raised my arms, and began the celebration of the Eucharist. There was no sense of parody or melodrama in this act, no symbolism or hidden intention; it was merely the automatic reaction of a priest who had said Mass almost daily for more than forty-six years of his life and who now faced the prospect of never again participating in the reassuring ritual of that celebration. It — Dan Simmons

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his. — Anne Ellis

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars. — Patti Smith

I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work and getting paid to act, and that alone is fantastic; I forget people watch it, too. — Kirsten Vangsness

Live close to nature and your spirit will not be easily broken, for you learn something of patience and resilience. You will not grow restless, and you will never feel lonely. — Ruskin Bond

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead? — Rob Zombie

he made a point of never asserting himself when he would gain more by keeping in the background; — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless. — Aristotle.