Costacurta Alessandro Quotes

#1. Manfried imagined the stars to be jewels shining in the depths of a long-sealed crypt and, drifting off, he almost glimpsed himself prying open the lid of night and stuffing his pockets with the glittering gems.

Jesse Bullington

#2. A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

Karl Kraus

#3. Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.

Chin Han

#4. I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Guy Pearce

#5. No one in my school liked me.

Gillian Jacobs

#6. Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

Tom Perrotta

#7. Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice

Joan Didion

#8. Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

Francesca Annis

#9. Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.

Joss Whedon

#10. I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.

Sarah Bessey

#11. Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

Eoin Colfer

#12. The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too.
[The human element]

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.

Igor Babailov

#14. Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.

Cass Sunstein