Storni Alfonsina Quotes & Sayings

You have to stop living in order to write. — Martha Gellhorn

I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands. — Alfonsina Storni

Abigail read in Reader's Digest that all plane landings were controlled crashes. Like the way we live our lives, she thought. Bumble through doing the best we can and hoping that some benevolence keeps us from crashing. — Chris Abani

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off ... I can't sit still too long. — Ellen DeGeneres

A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing. — Sally Schneider

For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label. — Zakk Wylde

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it? — Franz Kafka

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. — Anne Frank

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow. — Theodor Herzl

Ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ... — Alfonsina Storni

You may spoil the Gospel by substitution. You have only to withdraw from the eyes of the sinner the grand object which the Bible proposes to faith, - Jesus Christ; and to substitute another object in His place, - the Church, the Ministry, the Confessional, Baptism or the Lord's Supper, - and the mischief is done. Substitute anything for Christ, and the Gospel is totally spoiled! Do this, either directly or indirectly, and your religion ceases to be Evangelical. — J.C. Ryle