Antonio Porchia Quotes

Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.

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• I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunities

• One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Work
  • Need
  • Employees

• Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Doubt
  • Without
  • Machinery

• Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Generation
  • Gone
  • Shoulders

• The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Together
  • Effort

• Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Saying

• If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Love
  • Movies

• I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Leaving

• I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choice

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Book
  • Man
  • Bible

• I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Job
  • Old
  • Interview

• Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Political

• When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Mountain
  • Reputation

• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Home
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm a man of my word.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Man
  • Word

• What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Dream
  • Model
  • Better

• Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Marriage
  • Financial

• I think that with the death of Schumann and Chopin-‘finis musicae'.'’

  

  Anton Rubinstein
  • Death

• In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

  

  Hart Crane
  • Love
  • Voice
  • Choice

• Millions are pouring in people, of the very worst type that kill each other. Do you understand it’s an attack? It’s red level! It doesn’t matter now. You’ve got to choose sides at this point. The globalists have overrun us.

  

  Alex Jones
  • People
  • Choose
  • Attack

• A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • Family
  • Wanted
  • Decided

• Dirán que andas por un camino equivocado, si andas por tu camino.

  

  Antonio Porchia