Carlo Dossi (Carlo Alberto Pisani Dossi) Quotes
Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.Carlo Dossi
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
Kate Dickie -
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
Natasha Trethewey -
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
Rachel Cusk -
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino -
Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
Hale Irwin -
People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
Abby Wambach
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I drink a lot of water.
Abbey Clancy -
In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
Oleg Cassini -
I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
R. Kelly -
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
Frances Mayes -
For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.
Edgardo Osorio -
I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
T. J. Miller
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I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'
Rachel Bloom -
The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
Lars Onsager -
The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.
Dan Castellaneta -
You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
Felix Baumgartner -
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
Francesco Guicciardini -
We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.
Malin Akerman
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This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
Edmond Halley -
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
Jonathan Swift -
Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it.
Kaoru Ishikawa -
Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and are looking for clarity concerning the life that they are engulfed in.
Noah Cicero -
Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.
Bill Burr -
Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.
Carlo Dossi