Bonnaventura Quotes

#1. Even someone like Mrs. Bonnaventura, who had lived a mostly blameless life, when ushered into the awesome presence of the Creator of the infinite universe and also of the butterfly, would discover ten thousand fearsome new layers of meaning in the word humility.

Dean Koontz

#2. Do what is right not what is convenient.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Anita Brookner

#4. There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

Paul Newman

#5. I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. She kissed him first, and all the rest followed.

Alice Hoffman

#7. Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash

Enrico Bombieri

#8. A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

Jill Lepore

#9. It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

W.K. Marriott

#10. We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

Vandana Shiva

#11. I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany in 1933. We have to ask ourselves if we found ourselves in Nazi Germany, what would we do. Now I say, let the inspection process take its course.

David Clennon

#12. I couldn't find a decent threesome guidebook at the library, so I started scouring the Internet, reading biographies, and asking lots of people lots of questions. As it turns out, America is full of trisexuals eager to tell their stories.

Victoria Vantoch

#13. Pain is interesting. I dislike it immensely but I've never experienced pain and boredom at the same time. Even when I had unending and severe pain in my lower back for several years I was never bored by the pain, though it exhausted me.

Augusten Burroughs

#14. Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.

Claire Cook

#15. This, reader, is an honest book ... I want to appear in my simple, natural and everyday dress, without strain or artifice; for it is myself that I portray

Michel De Montaigne

#16. Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

Averroes