Antonio Porchia Quotes

No hallé como quien ser, en ninguno. Y me quedé, así: como ninguno.

Antonio Porchia

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• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Business
  • Want
  • Hand

• I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Band

• No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Body

• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Up
  • Single

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Feel
  • End

• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Medicine
  • Diseases
  • Doubts

• My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Love
  • America

• We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Positive
  • Try
  • Optimism

• Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Person
  • Find
  • Definitely

• In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Forever

• As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Lies

• Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Wisdom

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Want
  • Knowledge
  • Dangerous

• All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Childhood
  • Say
  • I Can

• I certainly find being the recipient at this celebratory dinner more pleasurable and rewarding than chicken-pox, having now in my life experienced both. But the small girl was not entirely wrong. Writing is indeed, some kind of affliction in its demands as the most solitary and introspective of occupations.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Girl

• 'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • She
  • Truth

• I'm always looking for what there is to see that's weird and wonderful and off the beaten path.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Weird
  • Path

• Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

  

  Anne Sullivan Macy
  • World
  • Free
  • Cry

• Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

  

  Ken Burns
  • Believe
  • Money

• My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Beautiful
  • Chance

• So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Issue
  • No Choice

• No hallé como quien ser, en ninguno. Y me quedé, así: como ninguno.

  

  Antonio Porchia