Piccirilli Quotes & Sayings

He doesn't hate you, Thomas, he admires you. And we're often frightened and jealous of what we admire. — Tom Piccirilli

Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food. — Andrew Rayner

Imagination is a cruel master to the jealous man. — Tom Piccirilli

Coincidence only carries so far, and then you just have to figure that the universe wants to fuck you up as much as possible — Tom Piccirilli

Why the fairies stayed with her, she didn't know, since they seemed to hate being stuck with her as much as she hated being stuck with them. — Amy Bearce

The Crone tires quickly and reaches out for the velvet draperies, sits on the divan, breathing heavily. She's too ancient to have a name any longer. When she coughs you can hear the ages rattling inside her shrunken frame. No human names can cling to her any more- they slip from her dusty shriveled flesh like a young girl's whimsies. — Tom Piccirilli

So live that men may take knowledge of you that you have been with Jesus, and have learned of him; and when that happy day shall come, when he whom you love shall say, "Come up higher," may it be your happiness to hear him say, "Thou hast fought a good fight, thou hast finished thy course, and henceforth there is laid up for thee a crown of righteousness which fadeth not away. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Consider the millions who are buying those modern Aladdin's lamps called e-readers. These magical devices, ever more beautiful and nimble in design, have only to be lightly rubbed for the genie of literature to be summoned. — Steve Wasserman

I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility. — Soledad O'Brien

Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of our dreams, and the rains and the willows forever remind us of the sacrifices we've offered and those we have yet to make. — Tom Piccirilli

SEE THIS SCREAM-IT'S FOR YOU, SEE THIS HURT-IT'S BY YOU, SEE THIS MARK-IT'S FROM YOU — David Levithan

He was a realist with too much fervor and not enough reverie. He always remained pragmatic in a place that had too much use for superstition. That's enough to ruin any man. — Tom Piccirilli

Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's. — Tom Piccirilli

One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates itself from the impositions of the laws it obligates people outside the legislature to obey. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It seems that the people who question me the most are the ones who've committed the most outlandish or atrocious acts. — Tom Piccirilli

Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a corkscrew to open a bottle of champagne? — David Markson

Anger takes up a lot of space if you let it. — Jay Crownover

Eddie asks, So what next?
And Jesus, his eyes dark but laced with a hint of mercy, the thorn scars just barely visible at his hairline, says, Damned if I know. — Tom Piccirilli

We move in spasms. — Tom Piccirilli

skin the off-white of a dirty motel sheet. — Tom Piccirilli

There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!
Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley. — Rumi

Randy stared into the glass he held in his hand, gazing into its cobra eyes. A double shot of thirty-year-old single malt whisky. You can't be an alcoholic when you only drink top shelf. Right? — Ted Magnuson

I thought about the kind of man who would stop off somewhere for a gun but not put on a pair of pants before committing grand larceny. — Tom Piccirilli

It will finish badly when she dries out, I suppose, and probably end with madness, but almost everything does. — Tom Piccirilli

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage. — Jill Scott

Evil, as considered in these cases, is a lack of choice. — Tom Piccirilli

Maybe we're strangers no matter where we go. Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go. — Veronica Roth

Billion dollar bonuses turned rules into polite suggestions. — Jeremy Robert Johnson