Donofrio Quotes & Sayings

When I grow up, I'm going to be my mother. — Melina Marchetta

Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real...There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is. — Leonardo Donofrio

Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...? — Leonardo Donofrio

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back... — Leonardo Donofrio

Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket. — Leonardo Donofrio

It was a kind of love where no matter what your relation with the person is, you care for them as much as you possibly can. Your protect them like parent, understand them like a sibling, talk to them like a friend and love them like a life-partner. — Aakash Neeraj Mittal

Don't you believe people when they tell you that people sought for a sign, and believed in miracles because they were ignorant. They did it because they were wise, filthily, vilely wise - too wise to eat or sleep or put on their boots with patience. — G.K. Chesterton

FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became. — Beverly Donofrio

I pitch like my hair is on fire. — Mitch Williams

The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man. I mean that with no disrespect. I say that with great respect. I love them because I'm one of them. They are still people of the earth, but they are different. They still put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands. And when I kill an antelope for 'em, their preference is the gut pile. — Ted Nugent

Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away — John Green

Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin. — Leonardo Donofrio

One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything. — Beverly Donofrio

Village life gently swirled around them, with the perpetual ebb and flow of people, scurrying in every direction. The village was a living, organic entity, with blood flowing through its veins, and with a definite pulse and heartbeat. It had its own distinct personality and its own dark caustic humour, and was constantly processing and regurgitating information through its winding, meandering streets. — Leonardo Donofrio

One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything. — Beverly Donofrio

Men recognised her always: the same effulgent face, the same rust voice. And she and I, we recognised each other; I her face and she my legend. — Anais Nin

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. — E. M. Forster