Clelia Merloni Famous Quotes & Sayings

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions. — Peter Ustinov

We are all tellers of tales, and we seek to provide our scattered and often confusing experiences with a sense of coherence by arranging the episodes of our lives. Starting in late adolescence, we manufacture our dramatic personal myths by selectively mining some experiences and neglecting or forgetting others. — Dan P. McAdams

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert

Everyone belongs somewhere. Some of us are just lucky enough to figure out where it is while there's still time for us to find a way to get there. And once we arrive, we will never, ever leave.'
Juliet Seghers-Ward — Mira Grant

I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk. — Morley Safer

Are the guardian angels always with them?" I asked, still watching it.
"Yup. They're with their humans when they visit the loo..even when they're having sex."
I closed my eyes and shook my head. "You just had to go there."
"You asked. And don't worry. They're way too pure and obedient to be voyeurs. — Wendy Higgins

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal. — Fran Lebowitz

The face one wears as an adult is a mask that's cut to fit in her youth. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life. — Anthony

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer