Serravalle Scrivia Quotes & Sayings

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior. — Ruth Benedict

Oh, I loved John Wayne. He was just so charming and easy to work with. — Judy Geeson

You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind.
You shout the word - mind, mind, mind - over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and breathe, a slave by choice. — Toni Morrison

You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable. — William Graham Sumner

Why don't you want to see your mom? Did she burn your
dolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?"
"She wants to run my life," I explain.
"What a bitch. It's like she thinks she's your mother
or something."
"She's a psychopath," I said. "It's complicated."
"Psychopaths can't afford fur coats."
"This one can. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. — Karl Barth

I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a complete break with the generation before us in terms of culture, literature, music, and in politics, of course. 1968 was an important year; I was 16, and the world became clear to me, visible, so to say. — Per Petterson

a flesh-and-blood waiter and therefore as rare in San Francisco as a flying horse, — Christie Golden

You are nosy," said Howl. "You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all." "But — Diana Wynne Jones

If your knees ain't dirty...you ain't doin' it right! — Sidda Lee Rain