Top 29 Danilo Quotes
#1. Such polite manners for an armed man who was kidnapping me. Danilo could take a few lessons from him.
Robin Bridges
#2. Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.
Terry Teachout
#3. You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.
Danilo Kis
#4. Hildegarde stood, scratched her nose, an act for which she must later say a penance.
Louise Erdrich
#5. I wish to live in peace with myself and not with the world.
Danilo Kis
#6. It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
Danilo Dolci
#7. For me, I've worked hard for people to think I'm funny.
Nikki Cox
#8. Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter
#10. The amount of abhorrence that departs, that much of 'Pure Love' arises. When abhorrence goes away completely, then Pure Love arises in totality. This is the only way.
Dada Bhagwan
#11. I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.
Danilo Kis
#12. Even a stone would talk if you broke its teeth.
Danilo Kis
#13. You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.
Brandon Sanderson
#14. The past was a minefield about which few maps seemed to agree. And why should that surprise me? It's a big place.
p. 30
Danilo Kis
#15. Love is a struggle, hard to get and hard to leave.
Irin Sintriana
#16. Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in explaining.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#18. He still thinks that knowing why might help. He doesn't yet know that the reason will never be good enough.
Ally Condie
#20. During that year by the railroad embankment, at the time of my father's complete disaster, distance meant for us not only some faraway lyrical splendor but also the exceedingly utilitarian idea of running away, the deliverance from fear and hunger.
Danilo Kis
#21. I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.
Danilo Kis
#22. Many people think I try to be like Lady Gaga but what they don't know is that I'm a Britney Spears wanna be.
Katy Perry
#23. Being single has definitely given me a new lease of life.
Mollie King
#24. It is hard to lift up your own misfortune. To be at once the viewer and the viewed. To be both above and below. The one below is a spot, a shadow ... To consider your own person in the light of eternity (read: in the light of death). To rise into the air. The world from a bird's-eye view.
Danilo Kis
#25. I don't want to make a tea set. I want to make crystal, as the wonderful Billy Wiseass would put it. That poor bastard has it good: he's never experienced love. It'll be easy for him to write a romance novel.
Danilo Kis
#26. The reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.
Danilo Kis
#27. History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain.
"To Die for One's Country is Glorious," p. 131
Danilo Kis
#28. Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn't win. For example, I never won a time trial at 60 kph, whereas others have and maybe still do.
Danilo Di Luca
#29. A good soldier never leaves a man behind.
Sarge