Perciavalle Quotes & Sayings

The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say. — Herman Melville

Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment. — Carlos Wallace

The Obama administration has been curtailing press freedom - but that hasn't ended the press' drool-cup worship for their beloved president. — Ben Shapiro

Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel. — James S.A. Corey

I could have had my husband put me on a lot of TV shows every day, but I chose not to. I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. — Jennifer Flavin

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts. — Dave Eggers

What is odd, perhaps, is how the primacy of patient autonomy and informed consent over efficacy - which is what we're talking about here - was presumed, but not actively discussed within the medical profession. Although the authoritative and paternalistic reassurance of the Victorian doctor who 'blinds with science' is a thing of the past in medicine, the success of the alternative therapy movement - whose practitioners mislead, mystify and blind their patients with sciencey-sounding 'authoritative' explanations, like the most patronising Victorian doctor imaginable - suggests that there may still be a market for that kind of approach. — Ben Goldacre

Men think a woman should not have an opinion. — Zaha Hadid

I enjoy shopping and going on holiday. — Tamara Ecclestone

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir. — P. J. O'Rourke

Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music. — Winston Graham

Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you]. — Shams Tabrizi

The charming shall inherit the Earth. — Simon Doonan

The votes elected officials make should be based on the best interests of the American people, not the fear of retribution when shadowy groups spend millions of dollars on negative advertisements. — Bernie Sanders