Luchini This Is It Quotes & Sayings

Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out."
Something bad might happen ... "
Impossible. But possibly something painful"
-A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane — Diane Duane

You have a four-fold life to live: a body, a brain, a heart and a soul . . . these are your living tools. To use and develop them is not a task. . . . It is a golden opportunity. — William H. Danforth

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix. — Bruce Coville

I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree. — Nadine Velazquez

Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. Amos's — Michael Lewis

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. — Fabrice Luchini

They're a funny lot, suicides. I remember one man who couldn't get any work to do and his wife died, so he pawned his clothes and bought a revolver; but he made a mess of it, he only shot out an eye and he got alright. And then, if you please, with an eye gone and a piece of his face blown away, he came to the conclusion that the world wasn't such a bad place after all, and he lived happily ever afterwards. Thing I've always noticed, people don't commit suicide for love, as you'd expect, that's just a fancy of novelists; they commit suicide because they haven't got any money. I wonder why that is."
"I suppose money's more important than love," suggest Philip. — W. Somerset Maugham

Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves. — Atticus Poetry

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. — Mickey Mantle

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. — Mark Twain

I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do. — Fabrice Luchini