Peggiore Italian Quotes & Sayings

Bach's simple and basic themes ultimately engage and appeal to my adolescent side while the seemingly complex arrangements, though perhaps patronizingly in some cases, also reflect my juvenile perception of what looks and sounds 'grown-up,' intelligent, refined and sophisticated. There were few composers and musicians in my youth that I could say understood me and really got me, almost all were classical. J. S. Bach was one one of them. — Anastasia Lily

Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine. How could it be, then, that I did not like her much the better of the two? — Charles Dickens

I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me. — Rick Riordan

Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner. — Michael Eklund

I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt. I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence, into the other. — Charlotte Bronte

Sex is probably the most fun you can have in life without gaining weight or having a hangover the next day. — Linda Sunshine

Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do' ... He might have written with as much truth, 'Satan finds some mischief for busy hands too.' The busy people achieve their full share of mischief in the world, you may rely upon it. What have the people been about, who have been the busiest in getting money, and in getting power, this century or two? No mischief? — Charles Dickens

She was the baby and the sister most likely being lectured when their mother assessed all four of them and scrunched her face. "Meg, honestly, did you even try brushing that rat's nest? — Tracy Ewens

It is our social responsibility as citizens of India to help fulfil Gandhiji's vision of Clean India, by his 150th birth anniversary in 2019. — Narendra Modi

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. — Anatole France

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune. — Marie Dressler

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. — Honore De Balzac

The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi. — Larry Brown

If you can avoid the grammatical bog of trying to wow English professors with your sentences, then you're well on your way to getting the reader to turn one page and then the next. — Scott Nicholson