Valdarno Drive Quotes & Sayings

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. — George Gershwin

You're going to get what I think is the truth, and it's going to be raw. — Joan Rivers

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to. — Joan Larkin

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent. — Reinhold Niebuhr

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes. — William Shakespeare

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity. — Aristotle.

What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking books off shelves.
If you start taking books off shelves then you are only going to find what you are looking for, which does not help those who do not know what they are looking for. — Jeanette Winterson

Allow grief room to air itself," Maurice had taught her."Be judicious in using the body to comfort another, for you may extinguish the freedom that the person feels to be able to share a sadness. — Jacqueline Winspear

Vola: So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet?
Peter: They're the same thing. — Sara Pennypacker

You will come to understand how they work, their dedication and the personal sacrifices they make. For these are truly the people who stand guard on the walls of freedom, while the rest of us sleep safely in our homes. — Tom Clancy

There is nothing more disappointing than the coolest kid in the whole world turning drama queen on you. — A.S. King

Every heat engineer knows he can design his heat engine reliably and accurately on the foundation of the second law [of thermodynamics]. Run alongside one of the molecules, however, and ask it what it thinks of the second law. It will laugh at us. It never heard of the second law. It does what it wants. All the same, a collection of billions upon billions of such molecules obeys the second law with all the accuracy one could want — John Archibald Wheeler

A man is the origin of his action. — Aristotle.

I should say something, but what? Pardon me, Father, but it's our brother she wants to marry? — George R R Martin