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

• I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Mind
  • Passion
  • Early

• 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

• The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Opportunity
  • Joy
  • Pleasure

• I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • World
  • Remember
  • Inspiring

• Oh, wad some power the giftie gie usTo see oursel's as ithers see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.

  

  Vanity
  • Power
  • Free

• Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

  

  John Selden

• We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that plays music with a certain sensibility or style to it". I'm not able to see quite what that is, but it's there and some people like it a lot.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Music
  • Band
  • Sensibility

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

  

  Antonio Porchia