Vito Genovese Quotes & Sayings

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful. — J.R. Ward

In July 1958, Cristoforo Rubino became another informer to fall before testifying against Mafia drug traffickers. A week before he was to testify before a grand jury investigating Vito Genovese and other traffickers, Rubino was shot dead on a Brooklyn sidewalk.98 — C. Alexander Hortis

My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more. — Gina Barreca

Believe me, I know people who have doting Grandmas. Jessica's Grandma Pearl spent four years knitting her a blanket. Four years! And she's got arthritis. I wonder what Grandma Pearl would think if she knew Jessica lost her virginity to Michael Greenberg under the blanket she spent four years knitting with her crooked fingers. — Simone Elkeles

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to. — Taylor Mali

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why.
Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school,
... I went to school high. — Styles P

You know,I think I'd rather freeze than continue this conversation. You've been warned.Proceed at your own risk."
He smiled. "I always do,darlin'. — Johanna Lindsey

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone. — Jason Chaffetz

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine. — James Hetfield

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. — Michelangelo

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset. — Alfred North Whitehead

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world. — Thomas Ligotti

Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains. — Vladimir Mayakovsky

The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions. — Stephen Hawking

Imagine that the genome is a book.
There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.
Each chapter contains several thousand stories, called GENES.
Each story is made up of paragraphs, called EXTONS, which are interrupted by advertisements called INTRONS.
Each paragraph is made up of words, called CODONS.
Each word is written in letters called BASES. — Matt Ridley

a woman would have to be a blind lesbian nun to not be affected by him. — Carol Maloney Scott