Viaggiatore Autunnale Quotes

#1. We're not going in through the embassy,' said Kaz. 'Always hit where the mark isn't looking.'
'Who's Mark?' asked Wylan.
Jesper burst out laughing. 'Oh, Saints, you are something. The mark, the pigeon, the cosy, the fool you're looking to fleece.

Leigh Bardugo

#2. The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.

Dawn Powell

#3. Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.

Nicole Mones

#4. Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them ... go around them ... take evasive action.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#5. You gotta know where you were to know where you are.

Emmitt Smith

#6. Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Walter Cronkite

#7. I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

Dodie Smith

#8. She shook her head slowly. "I don't believe you. You can't be a cop."
"Not a cop."
"Federal agent?"
"FBI."
"Even more unlikely."
"J. Edgar rolls over in his grave every day, but that's the way it is.

Sandra Brown

#9. All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.

Lawrence Lessig

#10. Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.

Andrew Jackson Downing