Rossana Rossanda Quotes

#1. I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

Manu Bennett

#2. Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Janet Flanner

#3. If you run a thousand miles a minute, you can expect to wear out a few pairs of shoes.

Ellis

#4. we'd all go mad if we had to experience what life throws at you every day with the same shock and wailing intensity of just-born emotions.

Amy Conner

#5. Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put together to form the whole is more important than any of the parts taken in isolation.

Bill Hillier

#6. Is it okay to go the roof of the tallest building in your town and jerk off into the street?

Eugene Mirman

#7. he normally had his pastry shipped from Boston's north end

Leighann Dobbs

#8. We can never tell what is in store for us.

Harry S. Truman

#9. The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity ...

Flannery O'Connor

#10. In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

John Naisbitt

#11. There is a tendency of one generation to run wild, break rules, enjoy itself, and then condemn those who come along next to give these indulgences a new spin".

Bob Morris

#12. The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.

Chapman Cohen

#13. I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

Benmont Tench

#14. I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

Laurieann Gibson

#15. I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology ... the study of milkmen.

Steven Wright