Ciolli New York Quotes

#1. The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

Joel Garreau

#2. Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

Caroline Knapp

#3. Every night you turned me down was worth it, if all I ever get is just this one.

LeighAnn Kopans

#4. The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.

Julian Simon

#5. I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that.

Eileen Davidson

#6. Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

Colin Greenwood

#7. Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.

George Orwell

#8. The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Jessamyn West

#9. In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness ... I see what people call God in all these things.

Pablo Casals

#10. We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.

Alan Cheuse

#11. I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

Amy Hatvany