Pintorio Quotes & Sayings

Alexander speaks. Anthony, I'm going to tell you something. In 1941, when I met your mother, she had turned seventeen and was working at the Kirov factory, the largest weapons production facility in the Soviet Union. Do you know what she wore? A ratty brown cardigan that belonged to her grandmother. It was tattered and patched and two sizes too big for her. Even though it was June, she wore her much larger sister's black skirt that was scratchy wool. The skirt came down to her shins. Her too-big thick black cotton stockings bunched up around her brown work boots. Her hands were covered in black grime she couldn't scrub off. She smelled of gasoline and nitrocellulose because she had been making bombs and flamethrowers all day. And still I came every day to walk her home. — Paullina Simons

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two! — Ed Blackwell

When we mourn, it should be the loss of love that makes us grieve, not the guilt that we did something wrong. — Sherwin B. Nuland

I am a control freak but it's important to feel strongly about the material you're working on. — Shane Carruth

1975 was a great year for rock and roll, and don't believe anyone who tells you different. — Frank Portman

Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police. — Richard Huelsenbeck

You can change your life, and you can heal yourself. — Michael Beckwith

I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you. — Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but they are not quick in responding to global, flexible networks. — Ashraf Ghani

Nature has endowed the earth with glorious wonders and vast resources that we may use for our own ends. Regardless of our tastes or our way of living, there are none that present more variations to tax our imagination than the soil, and certainly none so important to our ancestors, to ourselves, and to our children. — Charles Kellogg

Give me back my manly vigour, my black hair and ureceded brow
give me back the sweetness in my voice, my musical laugh,
the grief i knew in my cups when the delicious Cinara left me. — Horace

The Baudelaire orphans hung on to one another, and wept and wept while the adults argued endlessly behind them. Finally-as, I'm sorry to say, Count Olaf forced the Quagmires into puppy costumes so he could sneak them onto the airplane without anyone noticing-the Baudelaires cried themselves out and just sat on the lawn together in weary silence. — Lemony Snicket

The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome. — Donald Norman

Of course not, dear," Mr. Bradshaw said, tapping her nose lightly, and she giggled. "It's never the end
in fact, in my not-so-humble opinion, it's always the beginning. — Embee

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. — Charles Godfrey Leland