Pratesi Quotes & Sayings

Society continually tells victims to 'get over it', or 'it's in the past'. I can assure you that the treatment of those of us who survive will not be "in the past" as long as one of us draws breath, for we suffer the consequences every second of our existence. — JB Rowley

This weird thing that musicians have ... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid. — Glen Hansard

If you run out of gas, get a man to pee in your tank. Thanks mom, for that timeless piece of wisdom. My car exploded, ok? — Grace Feldman

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple. — Tim McCarver

He nodded, brushed hair off my face, and headed from the kitchen.
"I hate being a teenager."
"Why?"
"Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left. — Jodi Meadows

We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size. — William Stafford

I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail. — Sara Blakely

Architecture is invention. — Oscar Niemeyer

Poetry that tames language into tight structures and yet manages to move us comes off as a feat, paralleling ballet or athletic talent in harnessing craft to beauty. When poetry is based on a less rigorous, more impressionistic definition of craft, its appeal depends more on whether one happens to be individually constituted to "get it" for various reasons. The audience narrows: poetry becomes more like tai chi than baseball. — John McWhorter

It's almost impossible to get a movie all together when there are two main cast members, let alone an ensemble cast with everyone's schedules. It's crazy if it works out. — Margot Robbie

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman

You can never be too far away from a disaster, because there is no disaster-free zone in this entire universe! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wondered about the half-life of regret. — Lorrie Moore