Quartetto Duepiudue Quotes & Sayings

History...to stand in a place and know that this where you come from for a dozen generations or maybe a hundred generations or maybe more. To know there was a great city two thousand years ago in this place, and that your ancestors helped build it and lived there and worked there. When you walk down a small road, all the others who are walking there with you from before. — David Vann

When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat. — Wayne Coyne

Back you fly to your perch, ashamed as well as frustrated. Life is almost all perch. There is no nest; and no one is with you, on exactly the same rock or out on the same limb. The circumstances of passion are all too petty to be companionable. — Glenway Wescott

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance. — Richelle E. Goodrich

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do. — Timothy Keller

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it. — Kathryn Stockett

Crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back. — Jim Crace

we are doing what we are doing now because we are not doing what we are not doing now — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another. — Dick Van Patten

Publishers always clamour for the books that no one has ever written, and turn a cold shoulder on them as soon as they're written. If St Paul were living now they would pester him to write an Epistle to the Esquimaux, but no London publisher would dream of reading his Epistle to the Ephesians. — Saki

It's like having my very own pet Legolas. — Allison Pang

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal ... the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed. — Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties. — Jerry Saltz

The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me. — Bianca Walkden