Montecorvino Rivela Quotes & Sayings

Grace to me is a little bit of extra help when you're feeling stuck or doomed or, probably, hopefully, out of good ideas on how to save yourself, and how to salvage the situation or the friendship or the whatever it is," Anne Lamott once told me. "I wish it was accompanied by harp music so you could know that's what was happening, but for me it's that extra pause or that extra breath or that extra minute's patience against all odds." On that first trip to Ireland, grace - the kick-in-the-pants, clarifying, cosmic-pause-button kind of grace - didn't just have a harp. It had an entire soundtrack ... — Cathleen Falsani

I'm a civilian, a citizen. — David Remnick

Jeffrey Carver imagines wonders and allows us to share his vision. — Terry Carr

Using the comma well announces that you have an ear for sense and rhythm, confidence in your style and a proper respect for your reader, — Lynne Truss

I'm not being cynical but when you're doing a movie you have a number to choices to do as an actor. But then you see it all cut together and some of the little ... all those little precious pieces you put in maybe on the cutting room floor. So you don't have that much control. You have very little control, in fact. — Anthony Hopkins

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. — Wale

More in love with desire than with the desired! — Irvin D. Yalom