Torresani Quotes & Sayings

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow. — Octavia E. Butler

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive. — Walter E. Williams

Adam Lambert is one of my best friends. I've known him since he was an understudy in 'Wicked.' Such a doll. — Alessandra Torresani

Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan

I'd love to do a superhero movie, like a remake of Wonder Woman. — Alessandra Torresani

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys. — Neil Patrick Harris

If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron wouldn't let us call the place the Poop Pile, especially after it had been named for Zeus, who doesn't have much of a sense of humor. — Rick Riordan

I keep a lot to myself. Thinking a million things while speaking ten things. — Mark Patterson

And on my conscience," he said, "I will for ever bear the weight of all those men who died in a hopeless cause. Two thousand against five thousand? How can 1 justify leading so few against so many?"
"You know how."
"So I can be king?"
"So that we are not slaves in our own land," I said. — Bernard Cornwell

I was the child who would leave school and take her clothes off the second I got into the house. I made my mom buy me lingerie when I was 5 years old. I was a sicko. My mother must have been mortified. — Alessandra Torresani

What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends. — Janet Morris

I love being naked. I'm a free spirit. — Alessandra Torresani

I want to be the poster girl for engineers and computer nerds. — Alessandra Torresani

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work. — Bertrand Russell

My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room. — Alessandra Torresani

I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. 'Aren't you tired?' I'm like, 'No.' I'm like an insomniac, I hardly sleep, I'm always on the move. — Alessandra Torresani

The wall of my heart is thin and the beat irregular but a new heart is being formed in me. — Jonah Books

My voice is very special. People either love it or they're like, 'What's wrong with this girl? She looks 16 and sounds like a hooker!' — Alessandra Torresani

Grove Health Center, trilled the woman on the end of the line. She had the vocal automisation that comes to people whose job description might as well read: 'Ceaseless repetition'. — Will Self