Joe Patroni Quotes

#1. The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.

Wilfred Trotter

#2. Yes, that's right ... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#3. I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present and a future - and what was in the past no longer exists.

Claudia Rankine

#4. This is not a pipe.

Rene Magritte

#5. When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

Richard Russo

#6. If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

Tony Blair

#7. Her one big cheat had been and always would be Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia; she simply could not see a world without it!

Julia Mills