Ermanno Scervino Quotes

#1. I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. Every day is predetermined by God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Funny how you never forget the girls from school, huh?

Dave Franklin

#4. Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Thorstein Veblen

#5. Just because you smile and act free doesn't mean the cage doesn't exist. It merely means you lowered your standards for how far you'll allow yourself to fly.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#6. It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.

Isaac Asimov

#7. I will either use people around me as a means to facilitate my journey at their expense, or I will use myself to enhance someone else's journey at my expense. The former is a journey that never begins, and the latter is a journey that never ends.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. I sort of miss everybody I told about.

J.D. Salinger

#9. Thus we find the source of our new multiple murderer primarily among the ambitious who failed - or who believed they would fail - and who seek another form of success in the universal celebrity and attention they will receive through their extravagant homicides.

Elliott Leyton

#10. I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

Akira Kurosawa

#11. I sometimes think of people's personalities as the negative space around their insecurities.

Lindy West

#12. Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. You're gonna need a bigger boat.

Peter Benchley

#14. You're saying you would sit in my pub and talk into a wireless, and they would hear it in America?

Charles Ayling

#15. Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.

Tamzin Outhwaite