Bagaglio Facile Quotes

#1. What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

Moliere

#2. I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

Lindsay Pearce

#3. Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Herbert Hoover

#4. House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#5. Our own statistics about violence, depression, drug abuse, divorce, and crime indicated that although ours was one of the wealthiest societies in history, it may also be one of the least happy societies. Why would we want others to emulate us?

John Perkins

#6. This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

Ellen Langer

#8. Discourse about the world merges with confessional discourse about oneself.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#9. There was an enormous revival of pulp fiction that started in the '60s and continued into the '70s, which in large part gave rise to things like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' among others. But I developed an appetite for the original stuff at the time, and that appetite has never really abated.

Chris Roberson

#10. Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

Gary Numan

#11. But, every once in a while, even the most normal of people act in ways that surprise themselves, doing things they might never have imagined themselves doing because they're excited, or they're obsessed, or they're in love.

Miyuki Miyabe

#12. An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.

Diane Ackerman