Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi created the famous Ponzi scheme. He came to US with $2.50 in his pocket and made $4.5 million. Of course he lost everything. He died at 66, completely penniless.
One day, one page, one sketch of GREAT EXPECTATIONS, published daily at 8:40 AM.
Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi created the famous Ponzi scheme. He came to US with $2.50 in his pocket and made $4.5 million. Of course he lost everything. He died at 66, completely penniless.
Like a needle getting stuck on an old record, obsessive-compulsive disorder causes you to get stuck on a particular thought or urge, like washing your hands over and over.
A Gothic window overlooking a garden: sometimes windows make all the difference.
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
Timbre is also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics, A sound may be described with such words as bright, dark, warm, harsh, and other terms. There are also colors of noise, such as pink and white.
Criss-crossed patterns of light and shadows through a latticework screen.
Falling into meditation decreases restless thinking, helps make more accurate judgements, and lowers cholesterol.
The typical Catalan stew is cooked with snails. When I was a kid I used to go out in the country after it rained to collect them. Now I very much prefer Ratatouille.
An indigestible single person: everyone has been one at some point or another. All it takes to change that is to trim off the fat and get sweet and salty, metaphorically speaking.
One third molar was evicted. It was a sulky operation.
Filumena Marturano is a dramatic play written in 1946 in which a former prostitute tricks the wealthy shopkeeper she’s been dating for 20 years into marriage so she can get the name for the 3 children she had while she was at the brothel. Sophia Loren plays her in the 1964 movie Marriage Italian-style.
The art of cross-examination, as any art, has a measure of drama.
Sensitivity, vulnerability, nurturing and nourishment are completely absent.
Munching on a cold, dry, hard crust and having a strictly professional dialogue: some people never laugh, they only make noises.