Sampietro Villa Quotes & Sayings

It is not their quantative scarcity vis-a-vis the majority that makes minorities hapless but rather their qualitative similarity. As a member of a minority group, you can be as industrious as an ant, even hit the jackpot and acquire a considerable fortune, but someday, just because you presently and will always belong to the same community, you could in an instant find yourself on par with those of your community who have idled their lives away since birth. That is why the affluent among the minorities are never affluent enough; neither are their exceptional members ever sufficiently so. — Elif Shafak

Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking. — Eve Golden

Yeah right. I'll believe you, thousands wouldn't. Want to borrow my mirror? — Kirsten Boie

Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more. — R.K. Narayan

For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite. — Philip Kitcher

What's wrong with these Volkswagen model names anyway?
What the fuck is a Tiguan?
They should go back to the trad German names,
names like
Masterracer,
Schwarzersmashen,
Judenkillen,
and Boschenbabybayoneten. — Sienna McQuillen

If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words. — Thomm Quackenbush

When Weary was ditched, he would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly. And then he would find some pretext for beating the shit out of him. It was a pattern. It was a crazy, sexy, murderous relationship Weary entered into with people he eventually beat up. — Kurt Vonnegut

He possessed a finely honed sense for the strange and the wicked. He had seen things all through his childhood that other people preferred to imagine happened only in films. — Robert Galbraith

Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting: the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous. — Frank Norris

Maybe Father thought I was bad girl enough and didn't need a slutty outfit to emphasize that further. — Cora Reilly

One of the pamphlets is called YOU, YOUR PARTNER AND THE MACHINE. She flicks through it, and it's full of pictures of loving couples where she cannot tell which one of them is vacant and which one is just doting. — James Smythe

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore — Maggie Stiefvater

It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others. — Mary Anne Radmacher