Pisano Quotes & Sayings

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. — Ken Burns

Before 1975, if you knew the name Howard Sackler it was because he was the author behind the 1969 Broadway play The Great White Hope, which won Sackler the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle award as the year's Best Play as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A friend of film producer David Brown, Sackler accepted the offer to do a re-write on Jaws author Peter Benchley's script for the film version of his novel. Sackler's main contribution to the story was the back story that the shark fisherman, Quint, derived his hatred for sharks from having survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in July of 1945 (in the film, Quint errantly states the date as "June the 29th, 1945"). — Louis R. Pisano

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough ... I've always had to deal with this black-white thing. — Lenny Kravitz

I am like a bird buried deep in a dark forest of possibility and finding their way by echolocation. — Ned Hayes

Maybe I am, but I'm not thinking with my dick. I'm thinking with my head and my heart, and I want to - no, I need to know her better. — Sandi Lynn

So what I suggest you start doing is fucking this world better than she's ever been fucked and start acting like a motherfucker that wants that big money rock - fuck. — J.M. August

Eventually, I stopped dressing like I was a Disney character, but the desire to live the life of a fairytale princess never really left me. — Monica Alexander

Whether you reed or rite, accustom yourselves to stand at a high desk — Noah Webster

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch. — Fred Schneider

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education ... that's the thing that worries me. — Will.i.am

As Conservatives, We Don't Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag — Allen West

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits! — J.R.R. Tolkien

When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents. — Alvaro Uribe

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. — Aleister Crowley

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations. — Lionel Jospin

And then one morning the soldiers grew suddenly still as the heavy latches were lifted and turned. Just before the doors slid apart, a man from Pisa took the opportunity to say, "The air is thin. We're in the mountains." Alessandro straightened his back and raised his head. The mountains, unpredictable in their power, were the heart of his recollection, and he knew that the Pisano was right. He had known it all along from the way the train took the many grades, from the metallic thunder of bridges over which they had run in the middle of the night, and from the white sound of streams falling and flowing in velocities that could have been imparted only by awesome mountainsides. — Mark Helprin