Bocconi Quotes

#1. A thorn in your side is better than a thorn in your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

Jodi Picoult

#3. 24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.

Joseph Hooker

#5. With God, it isn't who you were that matters; it's who you are becoming.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#6. Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

Suzanne Shaw

#7. Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

Mary Garden

#8. Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy! thought

Leo Tolstoy

#9. A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good.

Vincent Carrella

#10. He's an idiot," Harry said again. "One who doesn't deserve to lick your feet. You'll thank me someday."
"I have no intention of allowing him to lick me anywhere," she retorted, then turned utterly red when she realized what she's said.

Julia Quinn

#11. I followed the adage that if you really want to learn about someone, you should just shut up and listen.

James Patterson

#12. How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

Po Bronson