Alvise Cornaro Quotes

#1. I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. By the end of the first Potions lesson, he knew he'd been wrong. Snape didn't dislike Harry - he hated him.

J.K. Rowling

#4. Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

Albert Einstein

#5. Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.

Ray Charles

#6. He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nearly bath warm. "I'd stretch out in the water, " he said, "and lie flat on my back, and look at the stars.

Michael Finkel

#7. Go in and get us a shrunken head!

Ellen Schreiber

#8. Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Eli Broad

#9. How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

Jodi Thomas

#10. Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.

Melissa Francis

#11. But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

Lauren Oliver