Pierluca Degni Quotes & Sayings

Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves. — Markus Heitz

When we say that the ancestors of the Blacks, who today live mainly in Black Africa, were the first to invent mathematics, astronomy, the calendar, sciences in general, arts, religion, agriculture, social organization, medicine, writing, technique, architecture; that they were the first to erect buildings out of 6 million tons of stone (the Great Pyramid) as architects and engineers - not simply as unskilled laborers; that they built the immense temple of Karnak, that forest of columns with its famed hypostyle hall large enough to hold Notre-Dame and its towers; that they sculpted the first colossal statues (Colossi of Memnon, etc.) - when we say all that we are merely expressing the plain unvarnished truth that no one today can refute by arguments worthy of the name. — Cheikh Anta Diop

I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA. — Jen Lancaster

Beauty through my senses stole;
I yielded myself to the perfect whole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water. — James Patterson

I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh. — Amy Schumer

I'm very affected by what I watch and read. — Paloma Faith

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. — Nicolas Ghesquiere

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous. — Mary Quant

Learning to write ... is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest. — Bret Lott

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought. — Mark Goddard

I don't care about that," he says, lower. Another pause, and then: "I just don't want you to hate me. — Lauren Oliver

You're not perfect, and that makes you just exactly right. — J.D. Robb

She'll be really impressed if you take control and let her follow your lead. — Auliq Ice

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies. — Candace Bushnell