Piacentini Italy Quotes & Sayings

Having a job is like having a lobotomy. — Donald O'Donovan

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ... — Hannah Arendt

I'm good, but I'm not an angel. — Marilyn Monroe

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure. — Anais Nin

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. — Ausonius

Now, on the contrary, here he was , plunged into a whiteness so luminous, so total, that it swallowed up rather than absorbed, not just colours, but the very things and beings , thus making them twice as invisible — Jose Saramago

But how is it conceivable that Allah, the highest being of all, would enter into this world? This world is filthy and sinful, no place for the One who deserves all glory and all praise. And how could I even begin to suggest that God, the magnificent and splendid Creator, would enter into this world through the birth canal of a girl? Audhu billah,3 that's disgusting! To have to eat, to grow fatigued, and to sweat and spill blood, and to be finally nailed to a cross. I cannot believe this. God deserves infinitely more. His majesty is far greater than this. "But what if His majesty is not as important to Him as His children are? — Nabeel Qureshi

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard. — Steven Moffat

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. — Annie Leibovitz

But he also didn't care to hear that doom and gloom message of 'nothing this broken can ever be fixed.' He — Lucian Bane

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy. — Jim Cummings

And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere. — Jeanette Winterson

It took from 1967 to 2003 - over three decades - to build the big men. It took a decade - 2003 to 2013 - to destroy them. I suspect a new generation of big men will return. No people can tolerate chaos forever. Dictators will offer a way out and many of the exhausted and brutalized people of the Middle East will accept them, and I suspect Washington will as well. — Richard Engel