Sottofondo Musicale Quotes & Sayings

In seventy years, Russia's Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists. — Roger Lowenstein

Tomorrow is another day toward death. — Sylvia Plath

In their censures of luxury, the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial;89 and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows (as Jacob reposed his head on a stone), white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to the expression of Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and an impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator. — Edward Gibbon

I'm done counting days. Now because of you I'm making the days count. — Cheryl McIntyre

Would That All Yahweh's People Were Prophets!(Numbers 11:29) — Megan McKenna

The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home. — Horace

One of a person's greatest emotional needs is to feel appreciated. Start by appreciating yourself. — Denise Austin

I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated. — Julia Roberts

Apathy between family members makes the blood they share turn to water. — Penny Reid

I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home. — Guy Pearce

She's grateful for what she was born with. She should be. It's an awesome face, a perfect face, an ethereal face. The kind people write songs and poems and suicide notes about. It's that exotic kind of beauty that men in romance novels obsess over, even if they have no idea who you are, because they must possess you. That kind of beauty. — Katja Millay

One day Adam will realize that what he felt for me was just a crazy kind of desperation. We were two people who really needed someone to hold on to, and we had this past that made us seem so compatible. But it wasn't enough. Because if it were, I wouldn't have been able to walk away so easily. — Tahereh Mafi

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not. — Jane Smiley

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose. — Gary Paulsen