Signori Quotes & Sayings

Why do men create suffering for others and fight over material wealth? Naked we come into the world, naked will go out of the world. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have four pelvises on my desk. One is from a human woman who died not long ago. — Meredith Small

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone - adults promising us their own failed future. — Jacqueline Woodson

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity. — Chris Noth

Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience over a farmhouse table or a cup of wine in a workingman's kitchen. They talked with equal familiarity to the rough-tongued whores of Trastevere and the polished signori of Parioli. They enjoyed the ribald humor of the fish market as much as the wit of a Cardinal's dinner table. They were good priests too, and they did much good for their people, with a singular satisfaction to themselves. — Morris L. West

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared. — Colin Powell

Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing. — Joseph Cavano

Signori has all the tricks up his book. — Ray Wilkins

A writer creates many lives, changes lives, and with that lives forever. — Jen Golembiewski

One of these days I'm going to leave Nebraska, cut all those strings and ties and travel to the other prairies of this earth. I must know if the people who live on those other prairies feel the same way about their horizons as we do about ours. — John Janovy Jr.

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. — Marc Andreessen

Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. — George R R Martin

So the coward will dare on the gallant horse
What he never would dare alone,
Because he exults in a borrowed force,
And a hardihood not his own. — Adam Lindsay Gordon

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable! — Larry David

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. — Thomas Carlyle

Yes, Ermintrude." I muster a smile. "Ermintrude the hamster." The spotlight finally moves off me, and Dix Donahue comes to the end of his speech, and I look up to see Luke giving me a little wink as he approaches through the crowd. "I'll get you a new hamster this Christmas, darling," he says over the sound of applause. "We'll fight the discrimination together. If you can be brave enough, so can I. — Sophie Kinsella