St Villa Quotes & Sayings

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it. — Mark Twain

Do whatever you want with this dedication, but don't - don't - use it on your eyebrows. — Robert Galbraith

I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we know very little about. I wanted to use them in a story and bring them back into the public's consciousness. Similarly with mythology: everyone knows some of the Greek or Roman legends, and maybe some of the Egyptian or Norse stories too, but what about the other great mythologies: the Celtic, Chinese, Native American? — Michael Scott

Even if the whole of the man-made world could, through relentless effort and sacrifice, be modelled to rival St Mark's Square, even if we could spend the rest of our lives in the Villa Rotonda or the Glass House, we would still often be in a bad mood. 7. — Alain De Botton

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes. — Michael Mullen

A likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer. — Vincent Van Gogh

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one. — Dalai Lama

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen. — Pseudonymous Bosch