Alessandro Baricco Novecento Quotes

#1. All too often I try to skate away from the things I'm afraid of and things I don't like and am unwilling to accept. I'm selfish and difficult to handle. I give my men cause for concern. I worry them, but they haven't given up on me yet and I love them all the more for it.

Gillibran Brown

#2. Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

Farnaz Fassihi

#3. Tony knows the names of trees and birds. As we walk around, he points them out to me. I try to record them in my mind, but the information never holds. What matters to me is the emotional meaning of the objects.

David Levithan

#4. I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.

Katy Perry

#5. No. I don't have other plans".
"You wanna lay there and die?"
"Pretty much." I sighed

Jamie McGuire

#6. I've worked with so few female directors.

Andrea Riseborough

#7. I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#8. Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

Gail Tsukiyama

#9. The advice I tell students is to think about the big problems. I mean, work on anything you can work on where you can make progress. But always keep in mind the big problems.

David Gross

#10. And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#11. All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God.

Arthur Wallis

#12. When there is no way in which men can believe in the fundamental morality of a social system, even one then profit by, that system begins to die because the masters lose their ability to defend it.

George P. Rawick

#13. It's my job."
"Then thanks for showing up at work today.

Shannon K. Butcher

#14. The hardest studio music to play is Tom & Jerry - cartoons. The music makes absolutely no sense, as music. You can't get into hearing it. There's nothing to hear-'bleep!, blop! scratch!' and it comes fast; everything's first take. That'll change the way you look at life.

Howard Roberts