Antonio Porchia Quotes

Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.

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• I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Reading
  • Fashion
  • Thought

• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Wedding

• I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Challenge

• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Stop

• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Effort

• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Country
  • Person
  • Living

• 6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • War
  • Independence

• I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Great
  • Player
  • Speak

• I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Understand
  • Clothes
  • Street

• I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Writing

• Wear some mascara, give attention to your eyebrows, and also take care of your lips.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Lips

• I only cook when I'm in love.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Only
  • Cook

• The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Life
  • Important
  • Community

• If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

  

  Octave Chanute
  • Men
  • Success
  • Air

• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Home
  • Aspect
  • Thornfield Hall

• To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

  

  Alec Waugh
  • Time
  • Desire
  • Heaven

• Llevo mis manos vacía, por lo que hubo en mis manos.

  

  Antonio Porchia