Stomach Paining Quotes & Sayings

Referring to my desire to appropriate Italian, he [Domenico Starnone] wrote, 'A new language is almost a new life, grammar and syntax recast you, you slip into another logic and another sensibility.' How much those words reassured me ... They contained all my yearning, all my disorientation. Reading this message, I understood better the impulse to express myself in a new language. To subject myself, as a writer, to a metamorphosis. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing. — Ransom Riggs

The reader is more important than the writer but the writer should never write just for the reader---authentic writing is a must yet, without the reader, the writer is worthless... — Alexander M. Zoltai

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. — Plutarch

To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon ... — D.T. Suzuki

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. — Nelson Mandela

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard. — Daniel Barenboim

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other. — Nicola Sturgeon

I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life. — SARK

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde

Baba Yaga: " ... What are his powers"
Mirror on the wall: "He reads — Bill Willingham

Well, he died. You don't get any older than that. — Joseph Heller

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident. — Irvin D. Yalom