Pagnottielli Quotes & Sayings

In place of philosophy, which involves developing a system of belief based on questioning and reasoning, many of our modern leaders have embraced ideology, which is based on having a system of beliefs essentially stripped of the questions. — David Rothkopf

People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets. — Diane Ackerman

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich. — Rose Macaulay

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies. — Louise Doughty

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful. — Edward Dahlberg

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. — Julia Roberts

These (all the poor Remains of State) Adorn the Rich, or praise the Great; Who while on Earth in Fame they live, Are senseless of the Fame they give. Thomas — Alan Bradley

Anyway, there's a time and place for everything, and while this may have been the place, it wasn't the time. — Jack Finney

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera. — Mira Sorvino

He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop. — James T. Farrell

If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are. — Francis Collins

I think I'm a focus for international attention. — Sting