Thiago Motta Quotes

#1. The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Antonio Tabucchi

#2. Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

Frank Rich

#3. Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.

H.L. Mencken

#4. Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#5. Their love story unfolded and then folded up again in Cambridge, as I watched and took mental notes and learned nothing, naturally, because the heart is unteachable.

Susanna Kaysen

#6. Here was the thing: People felt the way they did and it wasn't their fault or yours if the connection was one-sided. It just ... was.

J.R. Ward

#7. Oh, fierce librarians, then? Tell you to shush and that sort of thing?

Garth Nix

#8. Conservative n.
A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny.
liberal n.
A person who believes in liberty, but only for the state.

Leslie Starr O'Hara

#9. No air, no balloons!

Ljupka Cvetanova

#10. Miss you so much it hurts.

Seconds later, she texts back, The feeling is mushrooms,followed by a second text reading, Yes, autocorrect, I meant to say mushrooms, not mutual. Good catch.

Life without you does feel a little bit like fungus, I reply. But definitely less tasty.

Emily Henry

#11. You know, it's a funny thing. The only Romance language Felipe doesn't happen to speak is Italian. But I go ahead and say it to him anyway, just as we're about to jump.
I say: 'Attraversiamo.'
Let's cross over.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. I never just went to look for clothes and style; I always find that wherever I go.

Iris Apfel

#13. Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

Camille Paglia