#reply

Ciao, bello!' The coal-eyed beauty who had kissed Jason through the Fiat's window appeared through the crowd, her pretty red mouth smiling. Utterly ignoring Storm, she perched herself on the table next to Jason. 'Ciao, bella,' he smiled. 'Vuoi ballare?' 'She wants me to dance,' he explained to Storm, peering round the girl's adolescent bottom. 'I know,' she replied shortly. 'I've got a degree in Italian. ↗

— Madeleine Ker

#beauty

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!" ↗

— Bill Bradley

#cannot #common #enables #escape #imagination

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bothers #cosmos #dumb #me #question

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. ↗

— David Hockney

#demands #e-mails #first #me #need

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#before #ever #intensely #make #more

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#always #ask #business #business leaders #citizenship

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday. ↗

— Alfred Doblin

#any #ask #being #friday #justice

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conventional #does #formulating #hope #left-wing

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#left #mix #politics #proper #religion

In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#discovery #general #hesitation #i #i can