Pensiero Speciale Quotes

#1. As the world grows older there is loss and gain - let us not with modern insolence and blindness imagine it all gain; [...] but neither must we with neo-pagan obscurity of thought imagine it all loss.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. A gun is like breath to a drowning man
it has to be drawn in haste.

James M. Cain

#3. It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.

Julia Child

#4. If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

Herbert Hoover

#6. I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'

Jim Caviezel

#7. I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.

David Cameron

#8. In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Lukas Foss

#9. My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

Maureen Corrigan

#10. I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

Martin Burns

#11. There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get it back.

Michael Pollan