Questura Macerata Quotes & Sayings

Because it's a fucking disaster to be creative when you know you're not Mozart or Keats. Dammit, I got tired of scratching around in my past. There's nothing in me to justify the pretension of creativity. This came before anything, before you, before Raquel, this is a matter of my own emptiness, my awareness of my own limits, maybe my sterility. Does what I'm saying to you seem awful? Now you want to come along and sell me an illusion, which I don't believe in but which does make me believe that either you're a fool or you underestimate my intelligence. Why don't you just leave me alone, so I can fill the emptiness in my own way? Let me see things for myself, learn if something can still grow in my soul, an idea, a faith, because I swear to you, Laura, my soul is more desolate than this rock landscape you see here ... why? — Carlos Fuentes

... just because something had never been done before did not mean it could not be done. — Christie Golden

Shopping is never over," Susan said. "It is merely suspended. — Robert B. Parker

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing. — Alexis De Tocqueville

My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no act of my life on which I reflect with more pleasure. I have given to my country a judge equal to a Hole, Holt, or a Mansfield. — John Marshall

Kind of like getting married." I smiled at him. "It's easy to say I do, but ten times harder to say I don't. — Denise Grover Swank

A man who is not in his proper place of reverence for and submission to God cannot be wise. — Jim Berg

The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. — Elizabeth Lesser

I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure — Leona Lewis

My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing. — Vash Young

...I was tired of throwing still more experiences onto the bonfire of my own confusion. It was bright enough already, and cast its light as far as I could see.
p 284 — Frank Huyler

Nothing surprises me now, I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused penis. — Augusten Burroughs

The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion. — Ken Robinson

As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism. — David Shi