Luigi Dallapiccola Quotes

#1. When we transform our old life and give our spirit a new image, we find it hard and tiring to turn back from the darkness of earthly passions to the serene calm of the divine light. We thus ask God to help us that a complete conversion may be brought about in us.

Augustine Of Hippo

#2. This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

Byron Dorgan

#3. I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

Paul McCartney

#4. It seems important to them that he is a kind of villain in their stories. This seems American.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#5. The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

Kevin Hart

#6. Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

William Winwood Reade

#7. To achieve, you need thought

Ayn Rand

#8. I have a hard time picturing anyone wanting to let you go, even though you have being grumpy down to an art form

Jay Crownover

#9. To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the everyday, into situations that examine the complexities that may fascinate or puzzle us. To dwell on the mundane as some kind of a writing exeercise is useless.

Graham Worthington

#10. When you cross the street, take my hand

John Lennon