Donnina Magrini Quotes

#1. The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages
a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.

Stephen Leacock

#2. When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Luc Tuymans

#3. I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

Iain Banks

#4. It was hard walking around the pitch ... You do that when you win trophies. The fans were throwing flags on and that was hard to take, something which put a lump in your throat.

Darren Fletcher

#5. The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

Joy Fielding

#6. No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

Daniel H. Wilson

#7. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life ... Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.

James Joyce

#8. You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

Henepola Gunaratana

#9. I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside.

Alan Furst

#10. If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

Michael Fassbender

#11. People
stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

Rob Thurman

#12. Where one does not do planning, it is all pure 'discharge'. 'Charge' occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. The long triangular grooves on the car had been formed within the death of an unknown creature, its vanished identity abstracted in terms of the geometry of this vehicle. How much more mysterious would be our own deaths, and those of the famous and powerful?

J.G. Ballard

#14. Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium ...

George Antheil