Antonio Porchia Quotes

Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.

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• We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Problem
  • Tough
  • Congratulations

• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

  

  Vanity
  • Music
  • Old
  • Vanity

• There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?

  

  Laura Miller
  • City
  • Wonder
  • Looking

• I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Angel

• Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Cold

• In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • School
  • River

• I stay around the young boys in the studio; I want to learn from them, and at the same time, I have a lot to offer them.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Same

• Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Me
  • Attention

• Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Language
  • Concept
  • Specific

• I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Brother

• I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Live
  • Home
  • Kids

• Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men

• Obviously, getting a number in the charts is a nice thing but the cherry on the cake rather than the main cake.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Nice

• It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • People
  • Nature

• We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Democracy

• Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

  

  Margaret Walker
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Voluntarily
  • Tragic Story

• Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Spy
  • Roof
  • Suit

• I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really into it.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito

• Y si cuanto encuentras es en cuanto buscas, siempre, en vano encuentras, en vano buscas.

  

  Antonio Porchia