Antonio Porchia Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to prove people wrong.
-
Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
-
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
-
I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
-
I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
-
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
-
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
-
Baseball is a team game.
-
We live too long for one marriage.
-
Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
-
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
-
As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
-
You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
-
We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.
-
Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.
-
Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.
-
A lot of potential scenarios create challenges. It's all about how you grew up, values instilled in you.
-
Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.
-
It's tough to win four games in the other team's building. Hat's off to them, they're a very classy team. They played very well.
-
Who doesn't want to have a yacht? But I would prefer to invest my money in something else. But I love them. I just wouldn't buy one unless I had a lot, a lot of money.
-
We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.
-
My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
-
Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.
-
En plena luz no somos ni una sombra.
