Pagatelia Quotes & Sayings

Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them. — Adam M. Grant

I don't really need a personal trainer or watch what I eat. I can't start the day without a hot chocolate or finish it without a few squares of dark chocolate. It's good for my mood! — Blake Lively

Don't let the brownies bite. — Brandon Mull

There are portraits and still-lifes
And the first, because 'human'
Does not excel the second — Charles Tomlinson

My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort. — Graham Swift

You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Feminine' was a test like some witch trial she was preordained to fail. — Barbara Kingsolver

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise. — Susan Orlean

Used throughout a room, orange can become surprisingly neutral, and yet it can be bright and mood-enhancing. — Jonathan Adler

Adams was in a hurry and ordered his horse drawn carriage to wait for him in front of his house. The horses were spooked before he got in the carriage, and the carriage was destroyed in an accident. Pondering what could have happened to him , Adams retreated to Psalm 20's injunctions against trusting in chariots and horses. — Paul C. Nagel

Because you were being a salty bitch — Michael Barakiva

I am always searching for more light and space. — Santiago Calatrava

There's a bit more of a safe distance when you're making a narrative movie, a bit more perspective. Audiences can separate themselves from the harsh reality of the facts a little bit more and think: 'Okay, how do I consider this?' — Tom McCarthy

His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.
As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Parents typically don't talk to each other about their goals and attitudes to parenting but this type of conversation could be very useful for helping parents become clearer about the things that are important to them. — Timothy Carey