Matricardi Corriere Quotes

#1. Really good 'hard' novels - say, Wolf Hall - yield, if you read them carefully, the information you need when you need it, in order to follow their paths. But there is a point at which subtle storytelling maneuvers outmaneuver their own intelligibility.

Daniel Menaker

#2. I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

Carlos Ghosn

#3. We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

George W. Bush

#4. Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Samuel Johnson

#5. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

Donald James

#6. He wasn't alive because he feared death. He was alive because he loved life.

Ingrid Betancourt

#7. She was the type to keep riding the train the wrong way around.

Haruki Murakami

#8. I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Susan Orlean

#9. A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib