Madonna Of The Stairs Quotes

#1. I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme's appeal. That it wouldn't be easy was the whole point.

Jon Krakauer

#2. The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

Richard Reti

#3. Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost and, even then, how much, under the weight of pure determination, can be forgotten and left aside only to return in the night as piercing pain.

Colm Toibin

#5. Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

James Wolcott

#6. I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut

Karl Pilkington

#7. For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our Lady as children do their Mother, can destroy every seed of vainglory and pride.

Josemaria Escriva

#8. I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage.

Amy Tan

#9. Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

Gustave Flaubert

#10. I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself.

Irving Stone

#11. I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.

Alice Cooper

#12. On my life, Magnus, I swear this is the truth: your father is a Norse god. Now, hurry. We're in a twenty- minute parking spot.

Rick Riordan

#13. How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history.

Frank Herbert

#14. The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to.

Yuval Noah Harari