Quotes About Scarlatti

#1. I feel the place is falling apart on me, but Mrs. Scarlatti says not to worry. It always looks like that, she says. Life is a continual shoring up, she says, against one thing and another just eroding and crumbling away. I'm beginning to think she's right.

Anne Tyler

#2. You stop belonging to yourself," she said. "I belong to my child, my husband, my home, my work, my babysitter, my cleaning lady. The time that remains, like after-tax dollars, doesn't last longer than a two-minute sonata by Scarlatti."
"And you don't even like Scarlatti," I said.

Andre Aciman

#3. Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 piano sonatas during his lifetime, most of them when he was between the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two.)

Haruki Murakami

#4. Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

Frank Stella

#5. Adonis watched her strut away, friend in tow, like a peacock with a stick wedged up its ass. Tessandra Scarlatti. He'd hoped in his absence, she'd fallen off the planet or died. Preferably both.

Em Wolf

#6. Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

Dominico Scarlatti

#7. Half-French, half-Greek, one hundred percent grade A asshole.

Em Wolf

#8. Remember what I told you.
Pick up the food. Get him drunk. Wait until his guard is lowered, complain about it being too hot, and begin stripping.

Em Wolf

#9. I've missed that mouth of yours.

Em Wolf

#10. Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase.

Domenico Scarlatti

#11. If you touch me, neither of us is going to that party.
What party?
Adonis, don't you dare put a finger on her! Both of you get down here so we can take shots and go!
What the fuck is she, a psychic cockblock?

Em Wolf

#12. It wasn't Adonis that she didn't trust. She did. It was these skank hoes she had to keep an eye on.

Em Wolf

#13. As a kid, did you think when you grew up you'd be spoken to as if you were still in preschool? When did it become okay to treat adults this way?

Adam Carolla

#14. Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

Bernie Taupin

#15. The worst that could happen is you two get into a fist fight, in which I will referee but secretly be in your corner.
Oh really?
Really. I'll even rub Vaseline on your face when he isn't looking.
What would I do without you?
You'll never know.

Em Wolf

#16. These kids will make you cry, laugh ... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a lot with me, as an instructor, that they might not normally share with other people because they are young artists and they need a platform for pulling that stuff out.

Clinton D. Powell

#17. Adonis Benoit. What were his parents smoking when they named him? Talk about overly conceited. It was no wonder he had a penchant for megalomania.

Em Wolf

#18. The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#19. All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

Daniel J. Mitchell

#20. Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#21. We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

Joyce Meyer

#22. Text him and see what he's doing later.
Prob hanging out around the house.
Good. So he doesn't intend on going anywhere.
Why? Am I planning on drugging and kidnapping him?
We'll use that as a last resort.

Em Wolf