Turturro Family Quotes & Sayings

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves. — Stephen Hawking

That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too. — David Clement-Davies

I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy. — John Turturro

The person you're meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum — Mandy Hale

Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family. — Aida Turturro

I came to the States when I was ten, and that was, in many ways, very hard. — Cote De Pablo

I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things. — Robert Harris

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock. — Kristin Cashore

Colleges should remember that selecting students by GPA more often benefits the faithful drudge than the original mind. — William Deresiewicz

I've triumphed over addiction. — Tatum O'Neal

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. — Madeleine Albright

My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy. — Roseanne Barr

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think. — Kenny Rogers

The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

They give their hearts away — Sarah Addison Allen

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth. — Augusten Burroughs

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. — Aida Turturro