Piantoni Quotes & Sayings

It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go on speaking kindly to the same irritating relative, or irritating employee, or irritating child day after day, week after week, year after year and come to see in that what God is asking of me, what God is teaching me about myself in this weary, weary moment. — Joan D. Chittister

If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world. — Alan Wolfe

1979. Coming to America after a childhood spent in the Soviet Union is equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor. — Gary Shteyngart

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects. — Frantz Fanon

I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy
er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess. — Mizuki Nomura

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films. — Philip Kaufman

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. — Philip Pullman

Women don't have an expiration date. — Wendie Malick

He would deny this is confronted, citing evasively his affection for Dante and Giotto, but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths. — Donna Tartt

He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." ...
Forgive him, he has no manners."
I get by on good looks," Nick said. — Sarah Rees Brennan

What is beautiful?
Everything that has been loved by someone,That is beautiful. — Newpostcard

Salvation history reveals sin as literally a broken home. — Scott Hahn

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity. — Leon Trotsky