Acciaioli Quotes

#1. We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before

Jane Austen

#2. I thought [ as a kid], "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

Ezra Furman

#3. The only birds I know about are the duck and the dove and the quail, birds that you shoot. You're not really supposed to shoot cardinals. I don't know if I'd shoot this bird. It looks pretty mean. This bird might pull a gun out and shoot right back at you.

Josh McCown

#4. Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Bruce Sterling

#5. Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.

Mark Haddon

#6. Doubtless there are other roads.

Stephen Crane

#7. Young fellows will be young fellows.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

#8. You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

Jose Mourinho

#9. To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. It doesn't matter how old you get. A hug from your mother always helps.

Lilliana Anderson

#11. Wherever I turn, the black wave rushes down on me.

Franz Kafka

#12. Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

Rene Descartes

#13. 'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

Paul Di Filippo

#14. My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

Alan Hovhaness

#15. A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Marcus Tullius Cicero