Santa Croce Quotes

#1. When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Poetry is practically the only intellectual pursuit which we can be positive was highly developed and much practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia. It seems certain that the Arabic word for poet, shair, meant originally "one who knows," and the word for poetry, shir, "knowledge".

Franz Rosenthal

#3. When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

Rafe Spall

#4. If we have too many worries, fears, and doubts, we have no room for living and loving. We need to practice letting go.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. You will do well.

Robert Jordan

#6. It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between ... This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something
you just have to want to learn its rhythm.

David Baldacci

#7. If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Julie Chen

#8. The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.

Theodor Adorno

#9. It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her.

Karen Joy Fowler

#10. I have been reorganizing and restructuring AOL: changing the strategy and rebuilding it from scratch in the worst economy in a generation.

Randy Falco

#11. Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

Dean Koontz

#12. I hate jeans for no reason.

Park Chan-wook