Pileggi Nicholas Quotes & Sayings

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff. — Laura Linney

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized. — Nicholas Pileggi

Henry was never able to help McDonald crack Lufthansa - the — Nicholas Pileggi

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. — Rajneesh

Of course, no matter how Henry tried to rationalize what he had done, his survival depended upon his capacity for betrayal. He willingly turned on the world he knew and the men with whom he had been raised with the same nonchalance he had used in setting up a bookie joint or slipping a tail. For Henry Hill giving up the life was hard, but giving up his friends was easy. — Nicholas Pileggi

Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization. — Nicholas Pileggi

By birth, certainly, they were not prepared in any way to achieve their desires. They were not the smartest kids in the neighborhood. They were not born the richest. They weren't even the toughest. In fact, they lacked almost all the necessary talents that might have helped them satisfy the appetites of their dreams, except one - their talent for violence. — Nicholas Pileggi

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. — Nicholas Pileggi

I'm not pretending this is anything more than a short-term relationship, but I like being with you even when there's no sex involved. That means you're not a booty call. — Georgia Cates

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show. — Kin Hubbard

Dubai is ... after all,
a lonely, transitory place.
It's hard to maintain relationships
when people are always coming and going. — Ameera Al Hakawati

He expects us to come to him for refuge from our grief, fear, and pain and not to dull those emotions with amusements and distractions that promise, but can never deliver, blessing. — Timothy J. Keller

My manager makes fun of me for the fact that I avoid the money, I'm allergic to money. — Martin Starr

Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become. — Zig Ziglar

Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical compound. Ethanol is often added to the gasoline we use to run our cars. — Chris Prentiss

Forgive to set yourself free; love to set the prisoner free. — Debasish Mridha

Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies. — Theodore Roosevelt

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless. — Rebecca Solnit

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades. — Sophia Loren

Becoming a comedienne was my way of adjusting to puberty. — Phyllis Diller

For most of the guys killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules. — Nicholas Pileggi

I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide, but I didn't. I gotta admit the truth: It turned me on. — Nicholas Pileggi

Just as "normal" as anyone... only I write my thoughts out on paper & illustrate a world of Romance in your mind as you read my creations. ~ A. L. Woodz — Angel L. Woodz