Picciolo Quotes & Sayings

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl. — Truth Devour

Ms. Borden is Lizzy's mother? — Anne Bishop

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that. — Louie Anderson

Directing first film was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could ... every day. — Ben Affleck

Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming. — Virgil

If you don't like what's playing, change the channel. — Art Hochberg

Politics remained archaically unchanged in 1999. America was economically strong but morally complacent. It was a year of evil in many ways - another great year for cartooning. — Michael Ramirez

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining. — Imelda May

I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air. — Lisa Kleypas

There's a vast encyclopedia of fears and phobias, and pretty much any object, experience, situation you can think of, there is someone who has a phobia of it. — Scott Stossel

I picked up an old microscope at a flea market in Verona. In the long evenings, in my imitation of life science, I set up in the courtyard and examined local specimens. Pointless pleasure, stripped of ends. The ancient contadino from across the road, long since convinced that we were mad, could not resist coming over for a look.
I showed him where to put his eye. I watched him, thinking, this is how we attach to existence. We look through awareness's tube and see the swarm at the end of the scope, taking what we come upon there for the full field of sight itself.
The old man lifted his eye from the microscope lens, crying.
Signore, ho ottantotto anni e non ho mai Saputo prima che cosa ci fosse in una goccia d'acqua. I'm eighty-eight years old and I never knew what was in a droplet of water. — Richard Powers

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them. — Edward Zigler

True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within. — Douglas Haddow