Presenze Unipv Quotes & Sayings

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? — Chuck Palahniuk

Children are born to break their mothers' hearts, my boy. — Sabaa Tahir

Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds. — Duncan Sheik

Do what you LOVE to do, and do it so well that those who come to see you do it will bring others to watch you do it again and again and again. — Mark Victor Hansen

Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to avow them and half doubtful if they can after all be right. Put me back among my Friends and in half an hour - in ten minutes - these same views and standards become once more indisputable. The opinion of this little circle, while I am in it, outweighs that of a thousand outsiders: as Friendship strengthens, it will do this even when my Friends are far away. For we all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men "after our own heart." Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. — C.S. Lewis

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. — Elliott Abrams

I look down at the city again. From here the city resembles a severed head, incinerated and discarded by the side of the river; its cavernous eye sockets are empty, bundles of dead nerves dangle from its neck, its shattered mouth gapes, a few desolate wires hang from its stark, scorched skull and, suddenly and incomprehensibly and so foreign to my body I could weep, I feel my heart expand with what I can only describe as a sensation of hope. Is there a word for that? Hope in the face of grand calamity. — Nick Cave

My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts. — Tahir Shah

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today. — Hermann Scheer

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians. — Wanda Sykes

Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him. — Marilyn Monroe