Rodari La Quotes & Sayings

The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill. — H.L. Mencken

Those who are locked up know better than their jailers the taste of free air. — Helene Cixous

There is a sweetness to life that can only be tasted when our eyes are truly open to our purpose and calling. The taste becomes richer still when we surrender to it. — DeAnna Kinney

Water is one of the least understood aspects of biology. — Steven Magee

There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. Not if you did it properly. — Trudi Canavan

A barn owl was perched atop the refrigerator. — Elizabeth Bear

To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation. — Thomas Aquinas

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it ... but Washington really changes the world. — Martin Sheen

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued. — Aesop

Never be daunted — Ernest Hemingway,

Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall. — William A. Dembski

My eyes narrowed. He wanted me to lie for him?
Minias leaned so close to the barrier of ever-after that it buzzed a harsh warning. "If you don't, I'll give the public what they expect." His eyes went to the people clustered at the window. "Proof that you deal in demons ought to do wonders for your ... sterling reputation."
Mmmm. There is that. — Kim Harrison

The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit. — Buzz Aldrin

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach. — David Gest