Petrini Editore Quotes & Sayings

I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt. — Cara Delevingne

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. — F.L. Lucas

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. — Finley Peter Dunne

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat. — Dorothy Parker

Lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company. Apple has been sidelined by Microsoft in the PC business. You've got to reinvent the company to do some other thing, like other consumer products or devices. You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis. — Walter Isaacson

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it. — Henrik Ibsen

Only very coarse persons wanted wars. — Pearl S. Buck

I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags. — Jennifer Kaufman

It is to this new-found resolution to reassert our indivisibility with life, to recognize the obligations incumbent upon us as the most powerful and deadly species ever to exist, and to begin making amends for the havoc we have wrought, that my own hopes for a revival and continuance of life on earth now turn. If we persevere in this new way we may succeed in making man humane ... at last. — Farley Mowat

If you ain't holding, you ain't trying. — Lyle Alzado

But tonight was all about getting my needs taken care of for the first time ever with a man. In and out. — Zach Jenkins

'Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously. — David Alan Grier

The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer. — George Carlin