Pensavo Che Quotes & Sayings

Creoles tend to express variations in time by having a string of helping verbs rather than by having complicated word formation rules. In other words, they are more like English in this respect than like a language such as Italian:
English: I thought she might have been sleeping.
Italian: Pensavo che dormisse.
The idea of potential (in the English "might"), completed or whole action (in the English "have"), and stretched-out activity (in the English "been") that go with "sleeping" are all expressed in the ending on the Italian verb dormisse. (Dorm is the root for "sleep"; isse is the ending that carries all the meaning about the time frame.) — Donna Jo Napoli

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see. — Paul Klee

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless, — Nick Denton

And I don't even have to include Joseph adoption Jesus to make that point, though it is irresistible to add that Joseph and Mary had to go through a lot fewer interviews than my wife and I did. Well, maybe one major one. — Scott Simon

capital flows to wherever the social or environmental standards are lowest. Not only this, but capitalism is designed to create the instability that we have seen in the markets, and those that suffer the most from this volatility are always the most vulnerable, namely the poor of the world. — Wayne Visser

You have no idea how strong my love is! — Elizabeth Gilbert

Your purpose is not your purpose for being here. Your experience of the feeling of purpose is your purpose for being here! — Noah James Hittner

Was and will make me ill, I take a gramme and only am. (Lenina) — Aldous Huxley