Pistoletto Newspaper Quotes & Sayings

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know. — Brett Favre

I also remember that Snoop Dogg visited the set in New York, with a joint in his mouth that looked like a cigar. There's your anger management. I thought, "Isn't he going to get arrested?" It was like he lived on another planet. God bless him, he was very nice. Who wouldn't be nice when you're that stoned? — Kurt Fuller

I beg you to stop your arguing and listen. The prophets speak of this time, when the Chosen One of God will cleave us apart, separating the believers from those who will be cast into the outer darkness. Have you ever in all your days seen a time when the division has been clearer? Have you ever known a time when miracles rained down from an empty sky, when the prophets' words were so clearly being fulfilled? — Janette Oke

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do. — Brit Marling

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations. — Paul Bowles

I've always been too much and yet not enough. — Deirdre Riordan Hall

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way. — John C. Maxwell

I know no marriages which fail and come to grief more quickly than those which are set on foot by beauty and amorous desire. — Michel De Montaigne

People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness. — Sheryl WuDunn

My name," I tell Wilbur in the most dignified voice I can find, "Was inspired by Harriet Quimby, the first female American pilot and the first woman ever to cross the Channel in an aeroplane. My mother chose it to represent freedom and bravery and independence, and she gave it to me just before she died."
There's a short pause while Wilbur looks appropriately moved. Then Dad says, "Who told you that?"
"Annabel did."
"Well, it's not true at all. You were named after Harriet the tortoise, the second longest living tortoise in the world."
There's a silence while I stare at Dad and Annabel puts her head in her hands so abruptly that the pen starts to leak into her collar. "Richard," she moans quietly.
"A tortoise?" I repeat in dismay. "I'm named after a tortoise? What the hell is a tortoise supposed to represent?"
"Longevity? — Holly Smale

But meanwhile, we've got to sustain the illusions of those who stay with something. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe. — John Waters

I am not married, no. I wasn't really into the notion when I was younger, but now I think a proposal is the ultimate romantic gesture. — Miranda Hart

God dwells in you. — Lailah Gifty Akita