Stesso Quotes

#1. They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
[Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte.
Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]

Torquato Tasso

#2. Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups

Inga Muscio

#3. Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

Walter Benjamin

#4. I am quite sure ... I have no race prejudice, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All I care to know is that a man is a human being - this is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Mark Twain

#5. Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

Diane Ackerman

#6. He took his time looking around for anything interesting to salvage, but found only broken bits of what once was.

A.B. Shepherd

#7. If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Alfred Hitchcock

#9. Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.

Joseph Hume

#10. Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

Joseph Hall

#11. I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

Mark Sheppard

#12. I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white,
The violets, and the lily-cups,
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburmum on his birthday,-
The tree is living yet.

Thomas Hood

#13. I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

Rush Limbaugh

#14. The Spirit inspired the Word when it originally was written. Today, He uses it to illumine us, and He applies it to our souls and hearts.

R.C. Sproul