A Quotes
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“Ancora oggi a Bagheria si fanno dei gelati squisiti, piccoli fiori di cioccolata ripieni di pasta gelata molle e profumata, al gelsomino, alla menta, alla fragola, al cocco. Per non parlare del più tradizionale “gelo di mellone” che non è un gelato come sembra ma una gelatina di cocomero dal colore corallino disseminata di semi di cioccolato. E che dire del “gelato di campagna” che è una specie di torrone di zucchero dai colori delicati, il cui gusto al pistacchio si mescola a quello della mandorla e della vaniglia?L'ultima volta che ho mangiato i dolci di Bagheria ero in visita a villa Valguarnera in visita a zia Saretta che poi è morta lasciando la villa e tutte le ricchezze ai gesuiti, con grande dispiacere degli eredi di sangue. I quali hanno infatti subito impugnato il testamento. I gesuiti, molto saggiamente, hanno pensato che una villa così monumentale è difficile da mantenere, avrebbe procurato più grane che altro, più spese che comodità e se ne sono lavate le mani. Nel frattempo, i ladri sono entrati e hanno portato via tutto, perfino le statue del giardino.”
Source: Bagheria
“Ancora una volta voglio dunque compiere questo viaggio, e anche ora so che non riuscirò ad andarci direttamente, che viaggio per me non può mai significare altro che digressione, l'eterno labirinto che il Viaggiatore si costruisce lasciandosi sedurre ogni volta da una deviazione e dalla deviazione della deviazione, dal mistero del nome sconosciuto sulla guida, dal profilo del castello in lontananza cui non porta quasi nessuna strada, da quello che potrebbe esserci da vedere dietro la prossima collina o montagna.”
“And "all the above" [what President Barack Obama calls his policy of promoting all forms of domestic energy], compared to "drill, baby, drill," if you actually look at the track record, we've massively escalated the emissions of methane and carbon dioxide.”
“And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.”
“and "good" doesn't mean he's worthy of you , does it ?”
“And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.”
“And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.”
“And 'Sex Drugs Rock Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.”
“And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.”
“And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.”
Source: The Purple Decades: A Reader
“And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?”
“And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports on it, you know they are just evil lies.”
“And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.”
Source: Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes
“And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot”
“And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.”
“And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there's only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines.”
“And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.”
Source: Lolita
“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.”
Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)
“And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.”
“and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”
Source: A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia
“And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.”
“And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.”
Source: The Republic
“And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.”
Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son
“And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry. Why did you save me? Words welling up on a tide: No, the opposite. Eyes the colour of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo.”
“and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.”
Source: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.”
Source: A Mouse is Born
“And a farewell apart
few eternity away,
Collision happens
Coz it’s meant to be this way”
Source: Ethereal
“And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh?”
“And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.”
“And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.”
Source: Poe
“And a glimpse into one heart is a glimpse into many.”
Source: Pure Colour
“And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.”
“And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.”
“And a hopeless, angry man is astoundingly predictable.”
Source: And She Was
“And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.”
Source: Cotton Tenants: Three Families
“And a lot of Barack Obama's support people are angry, don't like this country, from Bill Ayers to Jeremiah Wright on down. They think this country was founded in an unjust and immoral way and it has been unjust and immoral since it was founded. And it's about time it changed, it's about time the little guy got his share because the little guy is only little because everything's been stolen from him by the big guys.”
“And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.”
“And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.”
“And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.”
“And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell each other and what convictions and beliefs actually have the capacity to make us the kind of people who together can make the world the kind of world we all want it to be?”
“And a love worth remembering
is a love worth keeping.”
“and a man at the back who Jules considered surprisingly good looking for somone who believed in god.”
Source: Special
“And a man's life's no more than to say "One."”
Source: Hamlet
“And a Merry Christmas to you."
"Well, sir," he said, "it won't be long now, will it, until old soup-for-brains with the long white beard will come a-jingling over our housetops with goodies for us all."
"No--Guess not."
"A man who whips little reindeer is capable of anything," said Hackleman.”
Source: While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
“And a message from Will. I opened it.
Morning! Smile.
Or don’t. It’s completely your choice. Don’t let a guy tell you you’re prettier when you do. You don’t need to be pretty for anyone. Your value does not rely on my opinion. Damn the patriarchy.
I laughed, shaking hard and my eyes watering. What a moron.”
Source: Nightfall
“And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.”
“And a moment later he was telling me how one could sicken a man just by feeding him rhubarb and spinach at the same sitting, sicken him even to death if the portions were sufficient, and never set a bit of poison on the table at all.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
“And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.”
Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost
“And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.”