Vittiglio V Quotes

#1. Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

Albert Pike

#2. She pounded a skinny red coffee stirrer against the restaurant table with the rat, tat, tat of a machine gun.

Deanna Chase

#3. The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

George Saunders

#4. I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

I.J. Parker

#5. To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.

Ali Suliman

#6. I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.

Ben Brantley

#7. The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood Broun

#8. Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that case, it was not my choice. After I've done something that I'm really proud of and I think changes the way I'm perceived, the immediate reaction is: nothing.

Rufus Sewell

#9. Sometimes, life happens in the little victories.

Amy Matayo

#10. Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

Ovid

#11. Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

Earl Wilson

#12. No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us

Simon R. Green

#13. Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

William Blake

#14. For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

Diane Ackerman