Spogliamoci Quotes & Sayings

The big scandal around IG Farben this week is the unlucky subsidiary Spottbilligfilm AG, whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations, inside a ten-kilometer radius, stone blind. An IG review board caught the scheme in time. Poor Spottbilligfilm. It had slipped their collective mind what such a weapon would do to the dye market after the next war. — Thomas Pynchon

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke. — Paul Klee

What an astonishing thing a book is. — Carl Sagan

Your voice is your identity. — Rick Riordan

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

He is lifeless that is faultless. — Voltaire

And looking back, Ruby knew this was when it started; the slow unraveling of all that she had held as sure and true. — Anna Lawrence Pietroni

The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends the earthly rootedness of human language. For narrated events always happen somewhere. And for an oral culture, that location is never merely incidental to those occurrences. The events belong, as it were, to the place, and to tell the story of those events is to let the place itself speak through the telling. — David Abram

I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed to for myself. When it comes to lyrics, I tend to want to give them their voice, since it's most likely going to be on their record, or somebody else's record. And I find for more commerial-style music, people want simplicity, less vagueness, and less space to fill between the lines, so to speak. So I can't be quite as ethereal and mystical. — Gary Louris

Oh shit, I thought, if this isn't the Low King of the Dwarves then I'm the President of the Cricklewood Branch of the Women's Institute. — Ben Aaronovitch

They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them from the poem - STAY in the Book - RidingTheEscalator — Jay Woodman

[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools. — Thomas Jefferson

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace. — Hyrum W. Smith

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors — Michael Bassey Johnson

To me, this one brief moment proved to be my most meaningful memory at the park because it symbolized what we mean to people: We are not a cure for cancer, we are not going to save the world, but if we can make people that happy for a few hours or for a day, then we are doing something worthwhile. — Jack Lindquist