Quotes About Sorrento

#1. hailing from Sorrento, Italy, via Brooklyn via Ellis Island.

Bruce Springsteen

#2. Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

Karl Kraus

#3. Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.

Diego Della Valle

#4. The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans taken together -- a degree of wealth concentration that is accurately, not rhetorically, properly designated medieval.

Gar Alperovitz

#5. I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

Taylor Swift

#6. An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

Barbara Tuchman

#7. Don't congratulate yourself for baseline integrity.

Chris Johnson

#8. We have to let the Warrior Code rule our hearts. The death of a warrior does not mean victory.

Erin Hunter

#9. I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.

Courtney Love

#10. I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

Jeremy Scott

#11. Wars come and go; politics endure.

Jacqueline Carey

#12. And if torture were uniformly ineffective, there would be no need for a treaty banning it - which the Geneva Conventions do.

Anonymous

#13. Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#14. I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

Clement Attlee

#15. Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

Ross Perot

#16. No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

Pliny The Elder

#17. No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ezra Taft Benson