Nattalia Quotes & Sayings

The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be. — Samantha Power

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book. — Andy Rooney

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world. — Jane Campion

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export. — Robert Stone

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. — Allen Saunders

tocsin of an ideological crusade, has no limits," Lippmann warned. — David McCullough

I want the rain to follow me, to mark me with a stripe down my chest and belly, to darken my skin, and blacken my hair. I want to be broken, to be eaten by the anonymous mouths, to be eroded like minutes and seconds, to be reduced to water and a little light. I want to rise, the doors of the rain to open, I will enter, rain alive among my fingers, embroidered on my tongue, and brilliant in my eyes, I want to carry it in my shirt pocket, devote my life to the discovery of its secret, the one blessing it whispers. Rain — Li-Young Lee

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony. — Artur Rodzinski

Books are not life, only its ashes. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I want my life to be mystifying, she declared, although she didn't know what she meant. — Sonya Hartnett

I don't like very young women very much. Never did. — Manolo Blahnik

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it. — Tom Stoppard

Finally one evening somebody suggested Python (a great name for an untrustworthy impresario, I thought), someone else added Monty, which had connotations of our greatest World War II general, there was hysteria, and history was made. A — John Cleese