Monfardini Brothers Quotes & Sayings

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for. — Melina Marchetta

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good. — Confucius

Willpower is a learnable skill, something that can be taught the same way kids learn to do math and say thank you. — Charles Duhigg

Something in me - probably a small, nationalist dwarf part of my brain - something in me would like to feel proud of Dutch literature. But its hard to when the annual 'book week gift' year in year out is granted to a male. I dont like being part of an unjust system. But let me say this: it is the election method that is the real problem here. The 'vergadering' (meeting) that employs a simple flagging system - the basic way almost everything is decided here, from literary prizes to how much money is divided - it is a system based on the destruction of subtle values. You cannot ever ever say: I didnt understand this book. You can only say 'yes' or 'no'. And that system, that annihilates all forms of subtlety, that system is patriarchal in all its essence. So its useless to simply maintain the method, and try alter the outcome. — Martijn Benders

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be. — Jonathan Nolan

Italians are entirely without any commitment to order. They live their lives in a kind of pandemonium, which I find very attractive. — Bill Bryson

Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating. — Ron Fairly

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small. — Sergei Bongart

There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians. — Robert Wyatt

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! — Albert Camus

We think we're so clever. And yet we're always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of. — Julie Anne Long