Elena Cornaro Piscopia Quotes

#1. And Lawrence was afraid of the main thing. He had a tendency to talk feverishly all around the main thing, as if bundling it with twine. Presumably if he talked in circles around the main thing for long enough it would lie there, vanquished, panting on its side, like a roped steer.

Lionel Shriver

#2. Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

Glenda Millard

#3. The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.

Juvenal

#4. There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other,' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. This constant 'stay inside and let yourself be protected' mentality has gotten more people killed than all the accidental exposures in the world. It's like we're all addicted to being afraid.

Mira Grant

#6. For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.

John Edward Williams

#7. Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

George Clooney

#8. Don Giovanni, you invited me to sup with you: I have come.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#9. - and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.

Friedrich Nietzsche