Montorsi Modena Quotes & Sayings

No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see. — Wynton Marsalis

My contention throughout this book is that reconnecting to nature is one key to growing a larger environmental movement. That reconnection is visceral and immediately useful to many people's lives. Encouraging personal reconnection does not mean less engagement with global environmental issues; it means more. To act, most of us need motivation beyond despair. — Richard Louv

Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say. — Bernie Mac

Child actors don't have great track records. — Leslie Mann

A genius is the one most like himself. — Thelonious Monk

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better. — John Wesley

President Grover Cleveland issued an executive order in 1895 regarding entrance to the Foreign Service. Potential candidates were required to pass two examinations, one written and the other oral, to measure an applicant's knowledge and understanding on a range of subjects deemed necessary for the position. The written examination included essay questions about international law, arithmetic, modern history, resources and commerce of the United States, political and commercial geography, political economy, and American history and institutions. — Judith L. Pearson

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. — John Rawls

Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire. — Henry David Thoreau

Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti. — Pharoahe Monch

You never know anyone until you marry them. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable. — Jaron Lanier

Mother," Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude,
"you know I love you dearly - "
"Why is it," Violet pondered, "that I have come to expect
nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in
that manner? — Julia Quinn

I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary. — Camilla Belle