Oriana Fallaci Quotes
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.Oriana Fallaci
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
Victoria Moran -
Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
Ramana Maharshi -
I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
Maggie Stiefvater -
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor -
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra -
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
Ralph Steadman -
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco -
Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar -
I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
Laura Wade
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
Harold Ramis -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra -
I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
Hani Furstenberg -
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Ira Glass -
When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
Yoko Ono -
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
Abel Ferrara
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My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!
Calvin Klein -
People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.
James Rosenquist -
I think people should be able to do what they want to do.
Jonathan Davis -
When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.
Kathrine Switzer -
We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.
Harper Reed -
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
Oriana Fallaci