Soffici Alex Quotes & Sayings

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. — Leonard Boswell

There has, I fear, developed the worst of needs, the need to know, coupled reluctantly with an awareness that I probably will, in fact, never know. — Brian Evenson

And though I cannot honestly say I would ever turn my back on any luxury that I could come by, I do feel there is something a bit wrong in it. Perhaps that makes it all the more enjoyable. — Dodie Smith

I like youth, and I like stories about feeling things intensely and about transitional moments in human life. I reflect on my life and that's just a moment when I felt things probably the most intensely. — Joseph McGinty Nichol

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different experience, should look instead at something like the Sonata by Paul Dukas, which, in my opinion, is a real marvel. — Marc-Andre Hamelin

Through the lavender gloom clouding the entrance of the operations tent, Yossarian glimpsed Chief White Halfoat, diligently embezzling whiskey rations, forging the signatures of nondrinkers and pouring off the alcohol with which he was poisoning himself into separate bottles rapidly in order to steal as much as he could before Captain Black roused himself with recollection and came hurrying over indolently to steal the rest himself. — Joseph Heller

Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn. — Robin McKinley

The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that it's a wonder anyone would want to continue reading. — Richard Siken

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work. — Morris Chestnut