Pintus Conte Quotes & Sayings

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress. — T. E. Hulme

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. — Samuel Johnson

Fair warning," I said. "We may die horribly the moment I turn this handle." "I beg your pardon?" I turned the handle. There — Yahtzee Croshaw

When we write memoir we are re-creating, sorting through the layer of remembering, to put form and shape to our experience through language. By borrowing from the techniques of fiction and poetry, we are able to make the events of our past come alive, creating detailed pictures of time and place and portraits of the people who have come and gone in our lives. We use scene and dialogue, challenging ourselves to recall how someone talked, what they said (or more accurately, what we remember that they said) and how we felt when moving among the people and events of our past. — Janice Gray

We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right. — Richard Rohr

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. — Pat Conroy

It's like moving through a delicious fog. — Colum McCann

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. — Mason Cooley

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker. — Annie Besant

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did. — Rumi

I knew well that people could not fly - as well as anyone knows it - but I also knew the kicker: that, as the books put it, with faith all things are possible. — Annie Dillard

I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine. — Gary Johnson

Of these three essential factors, space might be said to be one with which biogeography is primarily concerned. However space necessarily interplays with time and form, therefore the three factors are as one of biogeographic concern. — Leon Croizat

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed. — Jake Heggie

Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel. — Daniel Handler