Antonio Porchia Quotes

Está triste, porque te abandonan y no estás caído.

Antonio Porchia

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• 'ReadyMade''s first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • First
  • Three
  • Odd

• The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Values

• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Said
  • Eating
  • Too Much

• I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Cheap
  • Scorn
  • Shoddy

• I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Play
  • Like
  • Try

• Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Today
  • Growing

• I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Help
  • Impressed
  • Earthquake

• As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Love
  • Rich

• Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Politicians
  • Journalists

• I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Want
  • Me
  • Dealt

• When comparing the time scales of genetic and cultural evolution, it is useful to bear in mind that we today - every one of us - can easily understand many ideas that were simply unthinkable by the geniuses in our grandparents' generation!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Today

• True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Life
  • True
  • Poetry

• Nihil enim rerum ipsa natura voluit magnum effici cito, praeposuitque pulcherrimo cuique operi difficultatem: quae nascendi quoque hanc fecerit legem, ut maiora animalia diutius visceribus parentis continerentur.

  

  Quintilian

• Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Power
  • Political
  • Black

• The first day I was in a daze thinking, ‘What am I doing? What’s my role?’ and then slowly we started writing with each other, and it was great. It took me way back to my high school days when I was playing in a rock band.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World

• Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way.'

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• As it happens I don't think it was God- the woman who saved me, she doesn't look like she's had much to do with angels, Perhaps the Devil was behind me all the time.”

  

  Paul Hoffman
  • God
  • Angels
  • Saved

• How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

  

  William Shatner
  • Simple
  • Beauty
  • Healthy

• Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Eyes
  • Shadow
  • Receding

• I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

  

  David Hockney
  • Done
  • Space
  • Picture

• I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'

  

  Mary Ann Mobley
  • Alone

• Está triste, porque te abandonan y no estás caído.

  

  Antonio Porchia