Samuele Butera Quotes & Sayings

When Gore Vidal was coming up, there were three major channels, and he could count on a big audience when he debated someone like William F. Buckley on TV. — Jay Parini

Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive. — David Letterman

A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer. — Anthony Liccione

Repotting a plant gives it space to grow. Repotting ourselves means taking leave of our everyday environments and walking into unfamiliar territory - of the heart, of the mind and of the spirit. It isn't easy. The older we get, the more likely we are to have remained in the same place for some time. We stay because it's secure. We know the boundaries and, inside of them, we feel safe. Our roots cling to the walls we have long known. But remaining inside can keep us from thriving. Indeed, without new experiences or ideas, we slowly grow more and more tightly bound, eventually turning into less vibrant versions of who we might have been.
Repotting means accepting that the way is forward, not back. It means realizing that we won't again fit into our old shells. But that's not failure. That's living. — Heather Cochran

If one person tells you you're a horse, they're crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, there's a conspiracy afoot. If 10 people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle." The point is that if several people are telling you the same thing, there is probably some truth in it. — Jack Canfield

The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives. — John Andreas Widtsoe

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy. — Ian McEwan

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you'd given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn't know the outcome for a long time. — Meg Wolitzer

The last time a straight man worked in the fashion industry, we got a fanny pack. — Chelsea Handler

I heard him call to the people not to be afraid, that the soldiers would not hurt them; then the troops opened fire from two sides of the camp. — Dee Brown

It's great to be named the best at something ... even if it's sucking. — Joseph Bruce

And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me ... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing. — Cybill Shepherd

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility. — Satoshi Kanazawa

Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off. — Darynda Jones

She could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology ... she could really hear, she understood structure and she could analyze exactly what it was about a piece of music that had to be rendered just so ... she was a very emotional person, Annette. She brought that out in other people. After she died I don't think I ever really felt anything again. — Audrey Niffenegger