Picenum Quotes & Sayings

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery. — Samuel Johnson

When you have gone beyond thinking, and if you can still remain alert, aware, as if one is fast asleep but still alert - deep down at the very core of one's being a lamp goes on burning, a small candle of light - then you will see your original face. And to see your original face is to be back in the Garden of Eden. — Osho

I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine ... — Rita Rudner

For it is too cruel otherwise, to force a queen to kill that which she loves. Her own sisters. And for her to see that which she loves come at her door like wolves, seeking her head." When — Kendare Blake

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table. — Janet Flanner

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army — Joseph Stalin

The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft ... in others it is medium ... in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania , red and black tufas ; in Umbria , Picenum, and Venetia , white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had. — Gail Collins

I could not have asked for a better friends or a better life, but there's a nasty trick about living. It happens at its own pace and in its own way and you never, never know what's coming next. So you keep running and running to keep up with it and most people get tired. Others don't get tired. They just get overtaken by the road. — Melodie Ramone

A Midsummer Night's Dream?" "Of course," said Clarence. "A great piece on love. — Richelle Mead

Unbeknownst to most of its dormant and otherwise distracted inhabitants, one beautiful tiny blue sphere, spinning through the dark cloak of galactic space, was clearly under siege. — Patricia Cori

Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop. — Jared Diamond

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse. — Richard Steele

When Luke's ready, mark my words, he'll get his own f**kin' woman and God save us all. — Kristen Ashley

Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play. — King Krule