Piccoli Quotes & Sayings

His guilt is my ticket to the latest and greatest. A guy adapts. — Lurlene McDaniel

For a freshman nobody, I look pretty good. At least that's what some girls hanging at the pool said. Sure, they were only eleven and twelve, but girls' opinions are always worth something to me. — Lurlene McDaniel

Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be. — Anthony Marais

I saw that book in the lot and I needed a better look at it. I overbid terribly, but I needed to be certain I had it. Purely speculation, of course - nobody was allowed to get a good close look before bidding - but I thought there was a chance it was my book. The way Treasure Island is Marie's. But the moment I touched it I knew it wasn't mine. I knew it wasn't for selling, either, not at Churchwarry and Son. I can't explain it other than to say that it was begging to be given away. — Erika Swyler

It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed from her flippantly, a kiss so abrasively illicit that she seemed to deserve it, as though she was not worth much to begin with. — Suki Kim

Abortion ... interferes with God's plan-a plan He willed before He created the universe. — Richard Halverson

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets
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that are simmering on the burners. — Sophia Loren

Prayer sustains us through the storms and rejections. — Euginia Herlihy

[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming. — Clare Short

In the Nazi Arbeit [work] camps back in '44 when a man was caught smoking one cigarette, the whole barracks would die," a patient, Ralph, once told me. "For one cigarette! Yet even so, the men did not give up their inspiration, their will to live and to enjoy what they got out of life from certain substances, like liquor or tobacco or whatever the case may be." I don't know how accurate his account was as history, but as a chronicler of his own drug urges and those of his fellow Hastings Street addicts, Ralph spoke the bare truth: people jeopardize their lives for the sake of making the moment livable. — Gabor Mate

Every moment is a gift, from the frivolous to the dire. The taste of sweetgold, and the rough paper of our favorite books. I find a god in these things- which god I cannot say, but I'm grateful to it. — Lauren DeStefano

She could have kissed him. She would have kissed him, except that she never could have made it mean enough. — Owen R. O'Neill

Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them. — Mark Zuckerberg

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. — Ralph Waldo Emerson