Antonio Porchia Quotes

En lo superficial, si no eres superficial, necesitas que te lleve de la mano alguien superficial.

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• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • World
  • Mother
  • Impact

• I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Nervous
  • Go
  • Beyond

• I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Work
  • Love
  • Think

• I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Help
  • Girl

• Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Violence
  • First
  • Refuge

• There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Finds

• In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Love
  • Parents

• I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Camera
  • Recognize
  • Awe

• Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Real
  • Way
  • First

• With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Time
  • Influence
  • Soldiers

• I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Red
  • Corner

• Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Same
  • Middle
  • Exposure

• I've been a free man.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Man
  • Free
  • Been

• I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • People

• Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Friends
  • Cold

• Prudence is … more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Power
  • Soul

• A cauliflower shows how an object can be made of many parts, each of which is like a whole, but smaller. Many plants are like that. A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth but irregularities at a smaller scale.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Clouds

• Theological or anti-theological argument to prove or disprove the existence of a deity seems to me to occupy itself largely with skating among the difficulties caused by our making a fetish of this word existence.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• It takes a long time for an idea to strike.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Time
  • Long

• It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.

  

  J. E. H. MacDonald
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Artist

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • Romance
  • Hook

• En lo superficial, si no eres superficial, necesitas que te lleve de la mano alguien superficial.

  

  Antonio Porchia