Stampone Quotes & Sayings

I'm a carnivore, a carnivore, a terrible disgusting carnivore. — Jonathan Franzen

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again. — Michel De Montaigne

Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. The little fellow will grow up. — Victor Hugo

The essence of management is to make knowledge productive. — Peter Drucker

What you are looking to create is a positive, happy life: the more you intend that your thoughts are positive and happy, the more that is what you will create. — Tony Burroughs

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. — Jose Marti

All day long you see those commercials: 'Here's Your Brain, Just Say No' ... and the next commercial is: 'This Bud's For You.' — Bill Hicks

Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle! — Nina Dobrev

I'm sorry," I choke out.
He's quiet. Tears drip off my chin. He lets out a slow, shaky breath.
"Don't cry," he says. "That's not fair."
I laugh and sob at the same time.
"It's okay," he whispers. His fingers brush at the tears on my cheeks. "Don't cry."
Then he puts his arms around me, wings and all. I curl my arms around his neck and bury my face in his chest and breathe in the smell of the river on him. Somewhere in the woods a crow caws. A blackbird answers. And then we're kissing and everything goes away but Tucker. — Cynthia Hand

A great, crude, strong, young people are the Americans - like a boisterous healthy boy among enervated but well bred ladies and gentlemen . . . Picture to yourself the American people as a great lusty youth - who treads on all your sensibilities, perpetrates every possible horror of ill manners - whom neither age nor just tradition inspire with reverence - but who moves about his affairs with a good hearted freshness which may well be the envy of older nations of the earth [Winston S. Churchill to his brother Jack] — Randolph S. Churchill

I wonder if a time would come when he wouldn't leave after spending thirty minutes in a room with me, but I know it isn't me he is running from. It is her. — Ella Frank

The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high as he
-from his resignation letter to Graham's Magazine — Edgar Allan Poe