Matteo Fulgheri > Matteo's Quotes

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“il dottore era andato via con l’espressione di chi è gravido di pensieri dolorosi e inestricabili; la faccia che avrebbe avuto Hegel un attimo dopo che gli avessero rubato l’auto.”
― Marco Malvaldi, La carta più alta

“although sometimes, when I’m talkin to Selena on the phone and hear her slur her words, I wonder if there’s any escape for any of us from the pain n the sorrow of our lives.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“nothing cheered up a handcuffed woman more reliably than a little Country Morning Rose Blusher. All the women’s magazines said so.”
― Stephen King, Gerald's Game

“That was when the carnival ended for Jessie Mahout. Ended? No, that wasn’t right. It was as if she had been afforded a momentary glimpse behind the carnival; had been allowed to see the gray and empty fields of autumn that were the real truth: nothing but empty cigarette wrappers and used condoms and a few cheap broken prizes caught in the tall grass, waiting to either blow away or be covered by the winter snows.”
― Stephen King, Gerald's Game

“time fleets, youth fades, life is an empty dream,”
― Robert Browning, Paracelsus

“Let me weep
My youth and its brave hopes, all dead and gone,
In tears which burn.”
― Robert Browning, Paracelsus

“But to have seen thee, and to die so soon!”
― Robert Browning, Paracelsus

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I saw no use in the past: only a scene
Of degradation, ugliness, and tears;
The record of disgraces best forgotten;”
― Robert Browning, Paracelsus

“And what proportion love should hold with power
In his right constitution: love preceding
Power—with much power always much more love;”
― Robert Browning, Paracelsus

“Got to love computers. They do all the thinking for you so you don’t have to.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Humanity’s first miscommunication with an intelligent alien race. Glad I could be a part of it.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Okay, guys,” I say. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If Astrophage is your enemy, I’m your friend.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“guess when you have five hands, zero g isn’t that big a deal. Just allocate a hand or two for keeping in one place and use the other three to do stuff.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Every pore of my being yells at me to go back to sleep, but I told Rocky I’d be back in two hours and I wouldn’t want him to think humans are untrustworthy. I mean…we’re pretty untrustworthy, but I don’t want him to know that.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“I want to be free of the spreadsheet as soon as I can.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Uncertainty’s dark wings about my head Strike, a thousand times, at my anxious brow.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia In Tauris

“Through mist and smoke, I see the murky glow Of that dire stream that lights the way to Hell.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia In Tauris

“Grant me from Lethe’s stream One last refreshing draught of forgetfulness. The pain of life will soon be washed away. Upon its course, my spirit will flow quietly, Surrendering to oblivion’s passage, To you, you Shades. In your eternal mist.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia In Tauris