Alberto Moravia Quotes
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
Alberto Moravia
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I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'
Bat for Lashes
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
Larry Flynt
The purpose of the suit is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is simply on the thin edge anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be sufficient to cause his professional decease. If possible, of course, ruin him utterly.
L. Ron Hubbard
How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
Edmund Spenser
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Anthony Burgess
I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.
CeeLo Green
The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
Edmund Hillary
People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
Sam Hunt
There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.
Jim Harrison
The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
Banana Yoshimoto
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
Alberto Moravia
