Bartolucci Pinocchio Quotes

#1. Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration and that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and you are the imagination of yourself. Here's Tom with the weather ... !

Bill Hicks

#3. How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.

Hassan Blasim

#4. Chapter 19 Want to piss off a woman? Just open your mouth. That usually works. -Words of wisdom

Lani Lynn Vale

#5. My tone was part bubbly, part cutting - a mash-up of sugar and snide so perfected I should TM it.

Kresley Cole

#6. I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived of their beer.

Woodrow Wilson

#7. ...any guy can buy you flowers, but the one who buys you hemorrhoid cream must really, really love you.

Risa Green

#8. I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

Pankaj Mishra

#9. Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

Robert Herjavec

#10. Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

Charles Kingsley

#11. it's nearly impossible to convey our deepest passions yet damned easy to share what's dullest and worst about ourselves.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#12. The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.

Alfred Stieglitz

#13. Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

James Fenimore Cooper

#14. Greatness is lonely and mediocre people feel consoled by that thought.
One has to choose between greatness and mediocrity oneself and the responsibility is all theirs if they accept greatness.

John Steinbeck