"After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom."

-- Rita Levi-Montalcini

#Spring Quotes #Home Quotes #Army Quotes

“Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.”
“It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.”

Source : "'At the Mercy of My Poetic Voice': An Interview with Alice Notley". Interview with Lindsay Turner, bostonreview.net. November 12, 2013.
“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”

Source : Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”
“Having inborn capabilities doesn't matter. Whether you can manage them or not, that's what determines the victory or defeat.”
“What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappoint him.”
“Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.”
“A human life is a schooling for eternity.”
“I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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