Quotes & Sayings About Napoli

Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about. — Donna Jo Napoli

And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing. — Donna Jo Napoli

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you. — Donna Jo Napoli

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift. — Donna Jo Napoli

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player ... Only if we had him at Napoli ... can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo? — Diego Maradona

On Napoli, Elena Ferrante is more ferocious than Roberto Savino. — Angela Paolantonio

Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended.
-Bound — Donna Jo Napoli

THE BUDDHISTS WOULD SAY that everything you need is right here, within you. There's no need to seek outside yourself for the answers. Nothing - no place, no person - can complete you or make you happy. The longer I live, the more I see and experience, the more certain I am that this is true. And yet, occasionally, a shakeup in location, or in the company you keep, can touch you in just the right way, awaken something inside you. At precisely the moment you need it. Timing — Lisa Napoli

Summer comes over the hill like a hairy blanket. — Donna Jo Napoli

Creoles tend to express variations in time by having a string of helping verbs rather than by having complicated word formation rules. In other words, they are more like English in this respect than like a language such as Italian:
English: I thought she might have been sleeping.
Italian: Pensavo che dormisse.
The idea of potential (in the English "might"), completed or whole action (in the English "have"), and stretched-out activity (in the English "been") that go with "sleeping" are all expressed in the ending on the Italian verb dormisse. (Dorm is the root for "sleep"; isse is the ending that carries all the meaning about the time frame.) — Donna Jo Napoli

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding — Donna Jo Napoli

I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart. — Donna Jo Napoli

You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper. — Donna Jo Napoli

Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds of things. — Donna Jo Napoli

We would go to visit a wholesaler, say in Napoli. We would go out, have a very long lunch, mozzarellas, wine. We would reach an agreement. And then the client would pay with a cheque that was postdated by six months, nine months. They were financing themselves by delaying their payments. — Sandro Veronesi

Every story began with the same claim: If you hear the first part, you'll want to hear the second. If you hear the story today, you'll come back tomorrow for another. If you hear the story tonight, you'll think about it as you sleep. — Donna Jo Napoli

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75). — Donna Jo Napoli

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg. — Giancarlo Esposito

A young man who had watched her eating with her fingers offered a set of chopsticks- those sticks for eating that had become so popular. He looked at her suggestively. Instead of blushing, she accepted the chopsticks boldly and continued to walk on, using them to eat noodle and vegetable dishes. — Donna Jo Napoli

The British story of Peter Pan is about a boy who never grows up and plays all day. — Donna Jo Napoli

A massive and brilliant accomplishment
the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it. — Donna Jo Napoli

When MSC Napoli grounded off a Devon beach in January 2007, its burst boxes of motorbikes, shampoo, and diapers attracted looters and treasure hunters. It was also a rare opportunity to compare what was declared on container manifests with actual contents. In 20 percent of the containers, the contents and weights were wrong. — Rose George

Some affixes are wildly promiscuous. — Donna Jo Napoli

All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie. — Isobelle Carmody

I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate. — Donna Jo Napoli

The world would be a better place if everyone traveled.
~Miss Clarrie — Donna Jo Napoli

And the world kept moving, not toward any goal, just going, because that's what life does. And its bound to be better with a companion who knows how to be tender, a companion you may grow to cherish. — Donna Jo Napoli

America: An ongoing experiment in democracy controlled largely by insanely wealthy people. And that's just the way we like it, thank you very much. — James Napoli

Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there. — Donna Jo Napoli