Pensatelli Quotes & Sayings

At a small dinner with other business executives, the guest of honor spoke the entire time without taking a breath. This meant that the only way to ask a question or make an observation was to interrupt. Three or four men jumped in, and the guest politely answered their questions before resuming his lecture. At one point, I tried to add something to the conversation and he barked, "Let me finish! You people are not good at listening!" Eventually, a few more men interjected and he allowed it. Then the only other female executive at the dinner decided to speak up
and he did it again! He chastised her for interrupting. After the meal, one of the male CEOs pulled me aside to say that he had noticed that only the women had been silenced. He told me he empathized, because as a Hispanic, he has been treated like this many times. — Sheryl Sandberg

Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong text, then the light should be as strongly part of that text as, for example, the sound it should be or whatever it is that you see. — Simon McBurney

Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything. — Mata Amritanandamayi

When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date ... I discovered that all fathers go berserk when their daughters start dating. I have to assume this was because all fathers were once teenagers at some point in their lives, so they had no illusions about whether or not the boys were up to something. — Gary Reilly

The man was irresistible. What's with that? she thought. It was like wanting to bake cookies for the spawn of Satan. — Janet Evanovich

It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work. — Eric Wight

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret. — H.P. Lovecraft

Just because our opinions on what is right are different, doesn't make me evil. — Adam Scythe

Not that a promise means much to a demon - or a god. — Joanne Harris

I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

What are the temples which Roman robbers have reared, - what are the towers in which feudal oppression has fortified itself...to the deep forests which the eye of God has alone pervaded, and where Nature, in her unviolated sanctuary, has for ages laid her fruits and flowers on His altar! What is the echo of roofs...or or aisles that pealed the anthems of painted pomp, to the silence that has reigned in these dim groves since the first fiat of Creation was spoken. — Charles Fenno Hoffman

Count the things you want more of. Count the laughs, not calories. — Grady Miller

You cannot penetrate events with reportage. — Michelangelo Antonioni

There are all kinds of worlds in the real world,"she said softly."Most people don't know that. — R.L. Stine