Sorvino Paul Quotes & Sayings

I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt. — Paul Sorvino

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe. — John Archibald Wheeler

Try to live so that you can always tell the truth. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days."
"Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?" said Fred.
"That was a sample of fertilizer from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face. "It was nothing personal!"
"It was," Fred whispered to Harry as they got up from the table. "We sent it. — J.K. Rowling

Please, decide that I'm worth it — Erin Lawless

Ive been waiting for this moment,
The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary. — Nikki Rowe

Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you. — Paul Sorvino

The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it. — Elizabeth Drew

The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating. — Tina Fey

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing. — Paul Sorvino

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father. — Alan King

How much salt water thrown away in waste/
To season love, that of it doth not taste. — William Shakespeare

I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm. — Paul Sorvino

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do. — Paul Sorvino

I have such an image of a mafioso. — Paul Sorvino

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.' — Paul Sorvino

When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day. — Paul Sorvino

I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress. — Paul Sorvino

Upon reflection, it is relatively easy to understand how Americans come to deny the evils of mass incarceration. Denial is facilitated by persistent racial segregation in housing and schools, by political demagoguery, by racialized media imagery, and by the ease of changing one's perception of reality simply by changing television channels. There is little reason to doubt the prevailing "common sense" that black and brown men have been locked up en masse merely in response to crime rates when one's sources of information are mainstream media outlets. — Michelle Alexander

When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure. — Pema Chodron

You can't blame your crimes on someone else; they're your own responsibility. — Kanae Minato

I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears. — Shahin Najafi

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people. — Paul Sorvino

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. — Samuel Butler