Pitino Iona Quotes

#1. It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

John William De Forest

#2. One of the novels that was hardest for me to write had to deal with the horrible slaughter of war. I almost didn't finish Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom for just that reason.

Katherine Paterson

#3. We commonly do not remember that it is ... always the first person that is speaking.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal.

Sheri S. Tepper

#5. I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. These inbred pinheads are the only people you could find in the world to agree with your philosophies. (In reference to Wally George's largely redneck audience.)

Nikolas Schreck

#7. I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

Aretha Franklin

#8. Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#9. Boston is known for its innovation.

Thomas Menino

#10. The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.

Jack Kerouac

#11. The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine.

Fernando Pessoa