Alessandro Baricco Silk Quotes

#1. Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

Richard Carlson

#2. Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents; I asked to switch projects. I told my husband it was time to get married after six years of dating!

Ruchi Sanghvi

#3. Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.

Thomas Paine

#4. Modesty is the color of virtue.

Diogenes

#5. The size of your miracle depends on the size of your problem.

John C. Maxwell

#6. Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?"
"Why not?" It shot out of me with all the recklessness of my still-broken heart. "You brought me to mine.

Jeaniene Frost

#7. Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the church's coffers. It is in deed."
"I agree. That kind of love is porcelain-coated balls of dung.
But what of true affection? ...

Ted Dekker

#8. It's as if attentive
people create a magnetic force field for stor-
ies the tellers themselves didn't know they
had within them.

Gloria Steinem

#9. In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

Janos Kadar

#10. The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.

Tony Scott

#11. You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan.

Sophie Kinsella

#12. Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness.

Joseph Stefano