Nunzia Pennino Quotes & Sayings

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can. — John Le Carre

Everything in your life should be subject to the main purpose of life. — Sunday Adelaja

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. — Osip Mandelstam

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs. — Malcolm Gladwell

The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking. — Katie Melua

I knew not how to answer, or how to comfort her. That she had done a grievous thing in taking an impressionable child to mould into the form that her wild resentment, spurned affection, and wounded pride, found vengeance in, I knew full well. But that, in shutting out the light of day, she had shut out infinitely more; that, in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker; I knew equally well. — Charles Dickens

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot. — Donald Judd

I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them ... — Victoria Moran

Do you really know what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?" "Is there any other kind? — Helen Simonson

We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology. — David Lange

Jacob had seen too many horses whipped half to death to find anything romantic about horse-drawn carriages, — Cornelia Funke