Petrillo Quotes & Sayings

We don't go out there into the world and do what would make us feel happy and fulfilled with our lives, because what if it's not good enough for our parents? What if it's not cool enough for our friends? What if our choices aren't good enough for everybody else? "But know this: no matter what you do, you will never escape judgment and criticism. Don't even take this as bad news. It just is. It's what people do. They can't help it. You're getting judged either way, so you might as well do what makes you happy. — Katie Morton

Then Cotton quotes Luke 12:48. "To whom much is given, of him God will require the more." Of course there's a catch, Spider-Man. When God is the landlord, Cotton says, "defraud him not of his rent." The price? Obedience. — Sarah Vowell

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski

Yes, one of the benefits of being embarrassingly rich is that you find out if you have syphilis much earlier than the average peasant would. — Abigail Barnette

I love it when you quote me. — Leigh Bardugo

What we often take to be family values
the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility
are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs. — David Elkind

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural. — Sienna Miller

There is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be. — J.K. Rowling

I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action. — Majid Kazmi

If Europe could figure out a way to do the euro, I feel confident we can do this. — Mindy Kaling

Nothing knits a broken realm together so quick as an invading army on its soil. — George R R Martin

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it. — Joshua Bell

On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that a taste of honey is worse than none at all. — Tayari Jones

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right. — Leon Krier

The forgetting and having to remember again was the very worst part. — Ann Brashares