Susurrando Al Quotes & Sayings

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face. — Marianne Williamson

Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them. — Jim Butcher

Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear. — Jodi Picoult

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. — John Jay Chapman

I could no more leave you than the earth could leave the sun. You'll always draw me back to you, — Amy A. Bartol

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. — Katharine Butler Hathaway

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. — Dawson Trotman

Fitch is on his way. He's coming after he blows up some wizards. — Cinda Williams Chima

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies. — Patrick Macnee

My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them. — Natascha McElhone

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. — Martha Grimes

I am a hero. It is a trade, no more, like weaving or brewing, and like them it has its own tricks and knacks and small arts. There are ways of perceiving witches, and of knowing poison streams; there are certain weak spots that all dragons have, and certain riddles that hooded strangers tend to set you. But the true secret of being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock at the witch's door when she is away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. Heroes know about order, about happy endings -- heroes know that some things are better than others. — Peter S. Beagle

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making. — Maria Menounos

It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman. — Sabine Baring-Gould