Nespolo Italy Quotes

#1. The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.

Joan Thomas

#2. For some it is the end of the rope. For others it is only the beginning.

Michael Dobbs

#3. Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

Yann Martel

#4. Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.

Kate Williams

#5. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.

Karl Popper

#6. I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.

Will Eisner

#7. Who I am is why I act

Pamela E. Bailey

#8. Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

Randal Marlin

#9. The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn't for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still be running around in loin cloths shooting at things with their arrows.

Sarah Palin

#11. The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Gilbert Highet

#12. I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

Ricky Gervais

#13. But guilt is a ghost that takes the shape of the body it inhabits and consumes all that is tender within its shell: brain, bowels, and heart.

Kathleen Kent

#14. The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.

Gabor Mate