Antonio Porchia Quotes

Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.

Antonio Porchia

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• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Society
  • Data

• It's very hard to live in an environment where you're reminded, constantly told that your existence just happens to be here... That you are not meant to be here.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Existence

• In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Problem
  • Better
  • End

• The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Chinese

• The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Teacher
  • Public
  • Office

• 'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Feeling

• I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Period
  • Painting

• People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Movie
  • Television
  • Three

• Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Spiritual
  • Only
  • Zeal

• Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Religious
  • Spiritual
  • Human

• More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Find
  • Stage

• The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mystery

• My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Advice

• It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Want
  • Kid
  • Obscure

• I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Green
  • Blue
  • Now

• Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Ambition
  • Touch
  • Heavens

• I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Home
  • Kids

• I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I think it's nice to see where she's spending her time.

  

  Blair Redford
  • Time
  • She
  • Friends

• At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.

  

  Blake Morrison
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Crisis

• Where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Labyrinth
  • Minotaur

• Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.

  

  Antonio Porchia