Bologna Napoli Quotes

#1. When Peter walked into a room he always swept it until he found Clara. And then he relaxed.

Louise Penny

#2. Philosophick Work, to proceed at all smartly, wouldn't you agree, requires a controll'd working-space.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. Books are like horcruxes
without all the evil
because a piece of the author goes into each one.

Ella J. Fraser

#4. ... breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan ... and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us.

Glenn Duncan

#5. I've got a lot of fans, but I say friends, because every time I meet a fan somewhere around the world, I don't consider them a fan; I consider them as a friend.

Jason David Frank

#6. I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we're led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.

Philip Kitcher

#7. This vision of life is deeply centered in God, the sacred. So it was for Jesus. So it is in all of the enduring religions of the world. What makes Christianity Christian is centering in God as known in Jesus.

Marcus J. Borg

#8. It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

Albert Camus

#9. Corvina must have been so different then ... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? At what point should you just give someone a new name? Sorry, no, you don't get to be Corvina anymore. Now you're Corvina 2.0 - a dubious upgrade.

Robin Sloan

#10. Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be listening.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11. Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

J.C. Ryle

#12. All the sugar that you have ever eaten was first made within a leaf.

Hope Jahren