Mazzantini Non Quotes & Sayings

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of. — Margaret Mazzantini

I fought tenaciously against what seemed to be my destiny; I struggled against my natural reaction with all my strength, because it was killing my dreams and forcing me to go in the wrong direction. — Margaret Mazzantini

The weirdest love stories are always the best — Margaret Mazzantini

I can't even remember the first time I started singing. — Zooey Deschanel

It's always more comforting to know that in any given corner of any room or any location you're on, you can make a photograph that you'll appreciate. — Herb Ritts

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. — Neil Gaiman

Thing about white people," Jeremiah's father tells him, "they know what everybody else is, but they don't know they're white" - "Maybe some know it" His father eyed him and smiled "When they walk into a party and everyone's black, they know it. Or when they get caught in Harlem after nightfall, they know it. But otherwise ... — Jacqueline Woodson

These people need me and I need them. That's all I care about. I don't have to toil my youth away trying to get degrees or certificates to work in some soulless corporation. I don't want to find out just before I retire that the only thing that matters in life is how much you tried to make the world a better place. — Zainab Amadahy

You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity. — Margaret Mazzantini

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters. — Richard Engel

We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and they're still hungry. — Margaret Mazzantini

Peace of mind and heart
arrives
when we accept what is:
having been
born into this
strange life
we must accept
the wasted gamble of our
days
and take some satisfaction in
the pleasure of
leaving it all
behind. — Charles Bukowski

They all turned to Lirah, waiting.
"We'll kill each other, Priestling," she said softly, but her eyes were bright.
"I'll win most arguments, but you'll get used to it," he said.
She came to him and pressed a kiss to his cheek. "Thank you." She kissed De Lancey as well. "And thank you."
Gargarin took her hand. "And what about mine?" he asked. "I'm the brilliant architect. — Melina Marchetta

My child, I don't know where people go when they die, but I know where they stay. — Margaret Mazzantini

I've discovered I am most comfortable outside my comfort zone. — Mark W. Boyer

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to. — Bryan Fuller

My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting. — Leander Paes

My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us. — Mitt Romney

A lot of people take too much directness as rudeness, especially from a woman. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The human brain runs first-class simulation software. Our eyes don't present to our brains a faithful photograph of what is out there, or an accurate movie of what is going on through time. Our brains construct a continuously updated model: updated by coded pulses chattering along the optic nerve, but constructed nevertheless. Optical illusions are vivid reminders of this.47 A major class of illusions, of which the Necker Cube is an example, arise because the sense data that the brain receives are compatible with two alternative models of reality. The brain, having no basis for choosing between them, alternates, and we experience a series of flips from one internal model to the other. The picture we are looking at appears, almost literally, to flip over and become something else. — Richard Dawkins

Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them? — Marc Levy

But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs. — Margaret Mazzantini

There's no explaining love. It stands by itself; it makes mistakes and struggles on its own. — Margaret Mazzantini