Pantelleria Quotes

#1. When the Allies bombed the Italians on the island of Pantelleria in June, 1943, General Spaatz, of the United States Air Corps, concluded that bombing can reduce to the point of surrender any first-class nation now in existence, within six months.

Paul Fussell

#2. I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Carole Bouquet

#3. I wondered if he'd appreciate my help: maybe if I attacked her with a pool chair and beat her into putty, she'd be distracted enough to leave him alone.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#4. The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

Alan W. Watts

#6. I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

Nancy Mitford

#7. How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

Luanne Rice

#8. Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

Madeleine M. Kunin

#9. I can see every monster as they come in.

Truman Capote

#10. I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect.

Storm Jameson

#11. The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Maxine Hong Kingston

#12. When it comes to charities, there's a lot of fraud.

Marc Faber

#13. A man's entitled to feel sadness sometimes for what he's lost, even if he's found something else.

D.G. Parker

#14. I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.

Clive Culverhouse