Roscioli Quotes & Sayings

The excess energy released from overreaction to setbacks is what innovates! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence. — Yves Saint-Laurent

It is unfortunate that we have to live in a fortress, but we are forced to do so given the high crime rate in the country. I travel with two bodyguards all the time and there is substantial cost involved — Vivian Reddy

I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming. — Jacques Rivette

So when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, she detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs, - a fearless, sleepless, deathless progeny, which is not exposed to the accidents of the weary kingdom of time: a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings (such was the virtue of the soul out of which they came), which carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men. These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy. — Dolly Parton

things: and the vanity of praise, and the inconstancy — Marcus Aurelius

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical. — Jonathan Tropper

Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why. — Anton Webern

Be a man! ... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent. — H.G.Wells

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science. — Winston Churchill

Religion has at one time or another been thought to fill four main roles in human life: explanation, exhortation, consolation and inspiration. — Richard Dawkins

To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic. — Hugo Rahner