Nicandro Iannacci Quotes & Sayings

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike ... and I think a lot of people are alike too. — Bret Easton Ellis

I think I would rather hear roundabout music than any symphony concert. I know Beatrix would be disgusted to hear me say so, but its so gladsad somehow and makes me feel brave, late at night long after we were in bed we could hear the music floating over the river, and see the reflected moving lights on our walls, it was beautiful to lie in bed like that. — Barbara Comyns

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. — Victor Hugo

If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not! — Leonard Ravenhill

I feel only sorrow that I have failed to please. Sorrow-and not resentment-for my mother says that resentment is the most readily visible of all the sinful emotions, but sorrow can enhance one's sweetness and appeal. Resentment, the empress says, is like a snake that nests in the bosom, and it can turn and strike her who harbors it. — Sena Jeter Naslund

Nobody wants to say, "I'm trying to get my feet on the ground" when they're in their twenties. They want you to think they're about to do something dangerous, or exciting, or different. We're not "living at home," we're "crashing until we can afford a pad in Brooklyn. — Alida Nugent

Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure. — Soumya V.

Commit yourself to something you have a passion for. — Bill Walsh

Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come. — Julie Chen

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior. — Richard G. Scott

One night the month before, back on the other side of the Belgian border, Aughenbaugh had delivered a lecture on the etymology of the word war. He said that he had looked it up and it came from an ancient Indo-European root signifying confusion. That was a foxhole night, bitter cold. The 5th Panzer Army was making its last great push west. You had to hand it to those Indo-Europeans, my grandfather thought, rolling through Vellinghausen. Confusion shown on the faces of the townspeople. War confused civilians every bit as surely as it did the armies who got lost in its fogs. It confounded conquest with liberation, anger with heartache, hunger with gratitude, hatred with awe. The 53rd Combat Engineers looked pretty confused, too. They were milling around at the edge of town, contemplating the long stretch of road between and beautiful downtown Berlin, trying to figure out if they ought to mine it or clear it of mines. — Michael Chabon

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that. — Sharon Horgan

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it. — Wes Craven