Tendus Under A Palm Quotes & Sayings

The next day, at breakfast and during the entire drive to Milan, he talked passionately about what he considered the most exciting period of his life, the years between 1945 and 1948. I heard in his voice a genuine melancholy, which vanished, however, when he went on to describe with an equally genuine enthusiasm the new climate of revolution, the energy - he said - that was infusing young and old. I kept nodding yes, struck by how important it was for him to convince me that my present was in fact the return of his thrilling past. — Elena Ferrante

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage. — Bart Starr

You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left. — Henry James

I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl. — Albert Camus

Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration. — Victoria Moran

No matter how much you tried to make something happen, you will not be able to until the time is right. — Preeti Shenoy

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live — Lin Yutang

To be given permission to be confused
and remain confused
for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift. — Janet Jackson

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up. — Rob Machado

On Algebra - We're a month into it, and I'm planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed from the alphabet. Z is also suspect as far as I'm concerned ... Damn it! They put a man on the moon; can't they find some way to end the scourge of Algebra? — Huston Piner

Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free. — R.C. Sproul

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it. — Michael Flatley

The only thing an adult can give a child is time. — Chuck Jones

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. — Salman Rushdie