Spezia Quotes & Sayings

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have. — Nicholas Sparks

The names we use for things bear no inherent relation to the things themselves. — Guy Deutscher

When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on his palate. — Lin Yutang

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience. — Anton Chekhov

What I could not understand was why the Didact had decided to save one of those very weapons whose creation he had so decisively opposed. — Greg Bear

Do Your Best Work — Malcolm X

No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too. — James Iha

President Obama met with ten House Democrats opposed to the health care bill. He did all he could to get their votes. He promised to campaign for them in their districts and when that didn't work, he threatened to campaign for them in their districts. — Argus Hamilton

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas ... — Herbert Spencer

Do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose. My life might have passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. — Mary Shelley

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up. — Ed Koch

Spezia offered Leopold almost nothing: his precocity devoured itself there, rejecting the steep sunny coast and nibbling blue edge of the sea that had drowned Shelley. His spirit became crustacean under douches of culture and mild philosophic chat from his Uncle Dee, who was cultured rather than erudite. — Elizabeth Bowen

At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything. — Elizabeth Bowen

Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught. — Jamie Magee

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know. — Oliver Sacks

Hitler Youth Ronaldo! Which way to the street? — Timur Vermes