Beppe Quotes

#1. We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.

Lionel Barber

#2. I wish more Italian literature were translated and read in English. I've discovered so many extraordinary and diverse writers: Lalla Romano, Carlo Cassola. Beppe Fenoglio, Giorgio Manganelli, just to name a few.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

George Orwell

#4. God sees the workplace of some people as a mission field, where they are to fulfill their calling

Sunday Adelaja

#5. We are respecting our parents' wishes ... They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

Lemony Snicket

#6. I got an email from my ex, telling me that she has AIDS. I didn't know how to comfort her, so I just wrote back I know.

Anthony Jeselnik

#7. If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

John Ralston Saul

#8. old women must know something, or they wouldn't live to gather wrinkles and yell from their front stoops.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.

Amartya Sen

#10. You can't separate me from my upbringing as a child overcoming learning disabilities and having to make my way through that.

Dannel Malloy

#11. Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Charles Spurgeon

#12. If a bird flies straight at you, prepare for a bad day.

Kelley Armstrong

#13. Un viaggiatore americano ha scritto: "Italy is the land of human nature".

Beppe Severgnini

#14. I'm a 9/11 Republican.

Ron Silver

#15. I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

Jack Nicholson

#16. It occurred to me that I was on a run of suicides. Akutagawa. Dazai. Plath. Death by water, barbiturates, and carbon monoxide poisoning; three fingers of oblivion, outplaying everything.

Patti Smith

#17. Tell me the truth, Italian. You don't like it because it's strong. You like it because it's illegal.

Beppe Severgnini

#18. I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

Sami Gayle

#19. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

Hannah Lillith Assadi