Dionysius Fiumano Quotes

#1. Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded.

Naomi Wolf

#2. I don't dislike him because he's a Jew,' said Mr. Nunnery. 'One can't dismiss whole races at a time.' 'He's all right.' 'You'd hardly know he was a Jew.' 'Oh, no. Hardly at all.

Anthony Powell

#3. I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

Ali Smith

#4. Beauty ... cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

Wendell Berry

#5. Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

Alex Gibney

#6. Talent produces good work;
genius produces great work.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Nor had I any illusions about Algernon Charles Swinburne, who often used to stop my perambulator when he met it on Nurses' Walk, at the edge of Wimbledon Common, and pat me on the head and kiss me: he was an inveterate pram-stopper and patter and kisser.

Robert Graves

#8. Sometimes one awakes with the knowledge that unrecallable dreams have been lining your sleep, and though you feel rested, it is the rest of one who has lived for hours in an alternate world, another realm.

Amy Rachel Peterson

#9. Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#10. For the expendable marriage, you give the expendable gift.

John D. MacDonald

#11. I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.

Erskine Childers

#12. We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

Zooey Deschanel