Piernicola Bettiol Quotes & Sayings

Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race. — Barbara Woodhouse

Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship. — E.L. Doctorow

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity. — Philip Athans

I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away. — Woody Allen

Come to a rousing end. End in style, with flair or a flourish. — Anthony Weston

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts. — Criss Jami

The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
She whips a pistol from her knickers.
She aims it at the creature's head,
And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead. — Roald Dahl

No man in the New City could love her as Hatcher did - of that Alice was certain. It was deep and all-consuming but somehow never suffocating. It was unselfish. It did not ask for anything and yet he made no secret of his need. There was no one in the world like Hatcher, and if she hadn't been mad, there would be no Hatcher for her. — Christina Henry

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. — Marilynne Robinson

I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set. — Eddie Murphy

After a six-year battle, the Senate will vote next week to begin construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, which is an oil pipeline that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast. They're hoping the pipeline will provide enough oil to cover Kim Kardashian's next photo shoot. — Jimmy Fallon