Antonio Porchia Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
-
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
-
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
-
I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
-
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
-
In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
-
The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
-
There's no one who has been living for centuries.
-
As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
-
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
-
The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
-
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
-
Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.
-
ICOs are obviously a new and interesting form of funding for blockchain-based protocols, but it's not clear that all of them comply with U.S. securities laws or that all of them are companies that have good native use cases for new coins.
-
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
-
You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
-
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
-
People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.
-
I'm so excited about my new partnership with the talented and motivated team at S-Curve Records!
-
The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
-
Rehearsal's mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.
-
Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.
-
I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.
-
Cuando ya nada me quede, no pediré más nada.
