Ridendo E Quotes & Sayings

With a more expansive stretch, there's a better chance that I'll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she's smart and beautiful. — Frank Bruni

Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.) — Friedrich Nietzsche

Painting and sculpture, labour and good faith, have been my ruin and I continually go from bad to worse. Better it would have been for me if I had set myself to making matches in my youth. I should not be in such distress of mind. — Michelangelo

I researched sexual intimacy the same way I research everything else. Methodically and in intricate detail. — Nalini Singh

Most Barcelona fans are kids who have watched football for the first time yesterday — Didier Drogba

This mind goes on continuing. This mind will go on continuing, unless you become aware. And this is a miracle: that the moment you become aware the continuity is broken. Now you will be, but not of the past. Now you will be of the moment - fresh, young, new. Now each moment you will die, and you will be reborn. — Rajneesh

The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print. — Diane Von Furstenberg

All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was totally misinformed. I thought it was an Irish tradition where you don't even take a shower with your soap - you take your soap for a walk, you compliment the soap for a little while and then, suddenly, you just start hacking it up with a hunting knife. — Arj Barker

The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Hazel shuddered, remembering her close call with Don that afternoon. If she hadn't moved quickly and snatched that diamond off the road ... She didn't want to think about it. She didn't need another death on her conscience. — Rick Riordan

When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,' Jony said. — Leander Kahney