Viareggio Carnival Quotes

#1. I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

Val McDermid

#2. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

Markus Zusak

#3. People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

Rand Paul

#4. I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.

Eva Green

#5. More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemala.

Stephen Kinzer

#6. A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.

Tavi Gevinson

#8. The sun was still marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#9. You could spen the rest of your lifewondering why God let you die but refused to bury you

Dylan Saccoccio

#10. Almost without exception, the talented women I have known have believed they had less ability than they actually had. And almost without exception, the talented men I have known believed they had more.

Gregory Petsko

#11. People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Henri J.M. Nouwen