Antonio Porchia Quotes

Con mi encadenamiento a la tierra pago la libertad de mis ojos.

Antonio Porchia

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• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Good
  • Try

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Believe In Yourself

• I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Said

• I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Different
  • Way
  • Wish

• My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Listen

• I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Confidence
  • Determination

• If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Eyes
  • Brain
  • Only

• I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Think
  • Past
  • Rock

• If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • India
  • Useless
  • Incompetent

• I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Taken
  • Imagination
  • Never

• Sometimes when I'm on set, I keep eating, and people are like, 'You really eat that?' I'm like, 'Yes, I do.'

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Eating

• It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt that they weren't really for me. But I think that happens naturally when you write songs. You're in a different mood in every session. There's so many songs out there that could potentially be used by other artists.

  

  Fleur East
  • Writing
  • Write
  • Songs

• Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Funny
  • Desire

• But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Experience
  • True
  • Peace

• Greed puts out the sun.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sun
  • Greed

• Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

  

  Martin McGuinness

• As Narcissus fell in love with an outering (projection, extension) of himself, man seems invariably to fall in love with the newest gadget or gimmick that is merely an extension of his own body.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Fall

• Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Great
  • You
  • Musicians

• But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Hand
  • Write
  • Understand

• Con mi encadenamiento a la tierra pago la libertad de mis ojos.

  

  Antonio Porchia