Maria Letizia Benenato Quotes & Sayings

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics. — S.A. Tawks

Lin beamed, and threw a couple of triumphant middle fingers in the air. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

You can't count on friends. They will always let you down. — Rick Riordan

As much as he hated the travel, he loved the writing - the virtuous delights of organizing a disorganized country, stripping away the inessential and the second-rate, classifying all that remained in neat, terse paragraphs. He cribbed from other guidebooks, seizing small kernels of value and discarding the rest. — Anne Tyler

I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary. — Tobias Wolff

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars. — James Nicoll

My bottom belly was gone! I'd contemplated having that thing sucked out many times, but if you've ever had a face-lift and a brow lift and felt the pain of that, it makes you pause before doing anything else too invasive. — Adena Halpern

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking. — Brendan Myers

Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control. — Oli Anderson

These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief's rear passage. — Tarquin Hall

He could still escape - the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace. — Anne Ursu

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way ... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing. — Edie Sedgwick