Pisapia Moratti Quotes & Sayings

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him. — Michel De Montaigne

Perhaps, I thought, whenever we began to breathe the breath of others, when the spinning atoms of their bodies began to mingle withour own, we took on something of their personality, like crystals in a snowflake. Perhaps we became something more, yet something lesser than ourselves. — Alan Bradley

Books were not quite an escape for me. And they were never my friends. They were so much more than that - utilitarian and unbreakable. They were my armor, my wall against the world. — Annika Martin

You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it. — Woody Hayes

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them. — George Grosz

I loved them in the way one loves at any age - if it's real at all - obsessively, painfully, with wild exaltation, with guilt, with conflict; I wrote poems to and about them; I put them into novels (disguised of course); I brooded upon why they were as they were, so often maddening, don't you know? I wrote them ridiculous letters. I lived with their faces. I knew their every gesture by heart. I stalked them like wild animals. I studied them as if they were maps of the world - and in a way, I suppose they were." She had spoken rapidly, on the defensive ... if he thought she didn't know what she was talking about! "Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self. — May Sarton

In the night, when the wind dies and silence rules the place of glittering stone, I remember. And they all live again. — Glen Cook

Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store. — Hunter S. Thompson

When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match it. I feel safe, excited, at peace, erotic, centered. Nothing can touch me. — Vivian Gornick

So what are you guys doing?" Deacon sat beside them. He pulled his physics book from under Mark's bed.
"Having guy talk," Mark said.
Brandon snorted.
"No, really. I read an article in Time about how guys share their feelings and whatever now. As long as we mention the name of a sports team once in this conversation, we're totally manly. Also, erogenous zones are science. — Lisa Henry

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. — George Balanchine

Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives. — Albert Payson Terhune

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults. — Sally Phillips

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. — Arthur Smith

As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions. — John Locke