Cioppa Familia Quotes & Sayings

Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things. — Homer

Rushdie is a hostage. — Don DeLillo

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. — Sam Trammell

It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered. — Wilma Mankiller

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus. — Karen Russell

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays. — Ted Williams

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty. — Masashi Kishimoto

Do you want to feel insecure? Count the number of Christmas cards you sent out, and then count those you received. — Milton Berle

I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans. — Rani Mukerji

So there's a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode ... It isn't about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are.
(interview) — Nalo Hopkinson

I will never marry you. I will never have sex with you voluntarily. And the day you touch me without permission will be the day you swallow your own testicles whole. Do you understand? — Rachel Vincent

ready for whatever scooted out from under. The water was so deep I had my shortsleeve shirt rolled all the way up to my shoulders. I was aware of how long and skinny my arms must look to her. I know they looked that way to me. I felt pretty strange beside her, actually. Uncomfortable but excited. She was different from the other girls I knew, from Denise or Cheryl on the block or even the girls at school. For one thing she was maybe a hundred times prettier. As far as I was concerned she was prettier than Natalie Wood. Probably she was smarter than the girls I knew too, more sophisticated. She lived in New York City after all and had eaten lobsters. And she moved just like a boy. She had this strong hard body and easy grace about her. All that made me nervous and I missed the first one. Not an enormous crayfish but bigger than what we had. It scudded backward beneath the Rock. She asked if she could try. I gave her the — Jack Ketchum

A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun. — Alan Gottlieb

But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security. — Richard Dawkins