Tarchetti Quotes & Sayings

It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry. — Helen Simonson

Politicians are less problem for us, our greatest challenge as a nation is coming from the pulpit. — Sunday Adelaja

In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Do you remember, we used to long to cut our hair, dress in boy's clothes, and run off to the gipsies? Irresponsible, we were told, and dangerous. No, the real danger is that running away to the gipsies is fairy food. Had we done it, neither of us would have thought of coming back. — Emma Bull

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel. — Adam Weishaupt

Special discounts to Hogwarts students who swear they're going to use our products to get rid of this old bat,' added George, pointing at Professor Umbridge. — J.K. Rowling

As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great. — Peter Uihlein

I wish people were nicer, she says softly before yawning. Me fucking too. — Krista Ritchie

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises. — Marc Warren

Landscape ... can 'enlarge the imagined range for self to move in. — Robert Macfarlane

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we are proud and jealous of our sorrows, we love them, we want to remember them. It is they that comprise the crown of life. — Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity, and to call things by their proper names. If only you knew... how I hate my own self, how much I hate my ugliness, yet never so much as I detest my heart. — Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

I had to let my ego go a long time ago. — Sally Field

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense. — Nicole Kidman

I would rather kill myself than play my own music ... I can't stand it when people do that. — Jarvis Cocker

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating. — Melina Marchetta

There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement. — Leonardo Da Vinci