Pulcino Di Quotes & Sayings

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself. — Mark Twain

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much. — Francesca Annis

And I'm a Hailsham student - which is enough by itself sometimes to get people's backs up. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor - not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition. — Stephen Jay Gould

Ava, will you watch your fucking mouth?' he sighs, but there's relief in his voice. I'm half tempted to tell him to fetch the anti-bacterial solution and spray it in my mouth. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

Did you have any trouble with Olivia?" she asked....

"Not at all. We had pizza and beer every night and stayed up until midnight watching mixed martial arts in your bedroom. She can really hold her liquor." He slid a sideways glance at Cass, taking his eyes off the road for a fraction of a second. "Yet another way in which she takes after her mother. — Paula Altenburg

Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends. — Merv Griffin

Grief changes shape, but it never ends. — Keanu Reeves

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least. — Hans Jonas

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus? — David Horowitz