Pellizcando Al Quotes & Sayings

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. — Plutarch

The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself. — Anna Funder

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. — Marvin Minsky

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. — Wesley Morris

When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn't even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she's nuts. Nuts, I tell you. — Karen Marie Moning

To grasp love, I must grasp the fact that it is a creation of God and therefore it is forever beyond me. But the very fact that it is forever beyond me is the very thing that prompts me to forever pursue it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity. — Hortense Calisher

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do. — Barbara Ann Scott

God knows my heart. That's what matters most. — Amanda Penland

Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways. — Tacitus

I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support. — Jean-Claude Juncker

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the ... cleverness that we have to make changes. — Leon Kass

I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice. — Jenny Slate