Antonio Porchia Quotes

Arrancamos a la vida la vida, para con ella, verla.

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• Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Book
  • Think
  • Want

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Think
  • Reality

• I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Way
  • Food

• I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Working
  • Students
  • Succeed

• Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Speak
  • Situation
  • Uncomfortable

• There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

  

  Sally Field
  • Woman
  • Actor
  • Explore

• My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Home
  • Remember

• If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Politics

• If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Man
  • Study

• My main concern is getting out an album that I feel really proud of.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Proud
  • Feel
  • Really

• Working with Sukumar was amazing. He's someone who trusts his actors and allows them to experiment with dialogues and scenes. When you're working with him, you learn a lot subconsciously, and that helped me in discovering the actor within.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Amazing
  • Actor
  • Working

• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Children
  • Home

• When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

  

  William Beebe
  • Communication
  • Ocean
  • Realizing

• It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Food
  • Land
  • Pork

• It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

  

  Herodotus
  • Pride
  • Gods
  • Trees

• I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Convinced
  • Human Heart
  • Monotony

• Arrancamos a la vida la vida, para con ella, verla.

  

  Antonio Porchia