Passarettis Italian Quotes & Sayings

With my dog-eyes I stop before the sea. Tremulous and sick. Bent, thin, I smell fish in the driftwood. Fishbone. Tail. I gaze at the sea but don't know its name. I remain standing there, askance, and what I feel is also nameless. I feel my dog body. I don't know the world, nor the sea in front of me. I lie down because my dog body orders it. There's a bark in my throat, a gentle howl. I try to expel it but man-dog I know that I'm dying and I will never be heard. Now I'm a spirit. I'm free and fly over my miserable being, my abandonment, the nothing that contains me and that made me on Earth. I am rising, wet like fog. — Hilda Hilst

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever. — Orison Swett Marden

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. — Alfred Korzybski

Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby. — Craig Ferguson

First of all, there is no need to patronize me by implying that I'm Helen of Troy when it's clear that I'm no beauty. — Lisa Kleypas

True class can never receive the highest grade..for its grade is endless — Denise Newsome

I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back. — John Steinbeck

Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency. — Hunter S. Thompson

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. — Carl Sagan