Sembianza Quotes & Sayings

When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing. — Leslie Cockburn

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past. — Albert Theodore Powers

People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything. — Gary Hopkins

[F]or me, being a Jew means feeling the tragedy of yesterday as an inner oppression. On my left forearm I bear the Auschwitz number; it reads more briefly than the Pentateuch or the Talmud and yet provides more thorough information. It is also more binding than basic formulas of Jewish existence. If to myself and the world, including the religious and nationally minded Jews, who do not regard me as one of their own, I say: I am a Jew, then I mean by that those realities and possibilities that are summed up in the Auschwitz number. — Jean Amery

Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars. — Orrin Woodward

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity. — Kingsley Amis

And those who stand in our way," he added softly, "will not watch at all. — Timothy Zahn

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. — Thomas Jefferson

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer. — Liev Schreiber

If one doesn't do something well, it shouldn't be done."
"I don't agree," she protested. "Sometimes the effort should be made even if the results aren't perfect. — Lisa Kleypas

Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start? — Jennifer Crusie

Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names. — Sherwin B. Nuland