Monteleone Quotes & Sayings

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. — Julia Ward Howe

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world. — Satya Bhabha

He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him. — Thomas F. Monteleone

Sometimes when i am alone out there, or even here in my house, it seems almost possible that i might lose myself: there in that silence where there is no need of words or discourse. i have heard it said that there are men who have lost their minds to it, reason drained away into the dissolving space of sea and sky. And indeed while there are times when this place is full of life, a raucous cavalcade, even then there is a sense of emptiness, as if some ancient silence lingers in the fabric of this place, something alien, and unknowable. — Thomas F. Monteleone

overhead the birds are calling,
their cries seeming to feel the air.
As i watch, they rise.. flinging their bodies against the sky, intent upon the moment, spinning and turning like embers of smoke upon the air.
I envy them, this life of theirs..
the way they live so free of themselves, they are without past, without future, an exaltation of life beating in so many parts, rising up into the infinity of space. watching them i find i want to weep, and yet i have no tears. — Thomas F. Monteleone

It doesn't matter how nice that expensive watch looks on your wrist if you don't know how to tell time correctly. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if it costs you too much to make it. — Vincent J. Monteleone

longest of his works — Plato

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered. — Bartolomeo D'Alviano

This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path. — Gary Sheffield

If only we could always say our truths--if we could name the things that haunt us--maybe they could float up from us like the kind of helium that the birds would sip in the treetops. Then they would make us laugh and laugh. — Rita Zoey Chin

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor. — Eric Hoffer

Pursue decency in all dealings with your fellow man and woman. Simply put? Don't be an asshole. — Nick Offerman