Scacciapensieri Quotes & Sayings

The things you don't like talking about would fill a library."
"That's the kind of life I've had, all right? — Cinda Williams Chima

Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena. — H. Jay Dinshah

I can't remember a time when I wasn't inspired by 'Star Wars.' — Tony DiTerlizzi

Book love ... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. — Anthony Trollope

Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul. — Bruno Schulz

Though biomedical science has vastly increased mankind's average life expectancy, the maximum has not changed in verifiable recorded history. — Sherwin B. Nuland

Wrath, gealosie, griefe, loue do thus expell:
Wrath is a fire, and gealosie a weede,
Griefe is a flood, and loue a monster fell;
The fire of sparkes, the weede of little seede,
The flood of drops, the Monster filth did breede:
But sparks, seed, drops, and filth do thus delay;
The sparks soone quench, the springing seed outweed,
The drops dry vp, and filth wipe cleane away:
So shall wrath, gealosie, griefe, loue dye and decay. — Edmund Spenser

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. — Charles Mingus

Goodbye, Jacob, my brother...my son. — Stephenie Meyer

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich — Errol Flynn

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them. — J.K. Rowling