Percorsi Book Quotes

#1. Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.

Terry Pratchett

#2. It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

Mo Rocca

#3. To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#4. I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

Lauren Bacall

#5. If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.

Harlan Cleveland

#6. People say that when you return to the place where you grew up, it always seems smaller than you remember ... but I don't know if it was because I had built it up in my memories or I had gotten bigger. Maybe both.

Jeannette Walls

#7. We are like highly trained athletes, who never run a race.

Paul Samuelson

#8. Music wasn't really music unless your soul was exposed, unless your heart was either bursting or breaking.

Rachel Van Dyken

#9. It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

Leo Strauss