Volantini Quotes & Sayings

Life is a nightmare. — Ned Vizzini

I heard a choking sound behind me. When I looked back, Cannoli was hanging from the backpack harness with her hind legs circling frantically in the air. She looked like she was riding a bike just above ground level.
"Cannoli," I yelled. I unhooked her and made sure she was breathing on her own. When I tried to get her back in the backpack, she whimpered. I talked to her soothingly yet firmly, then tried again. This time she started howling like I was hurting her.
People turned and stared as they walked by. "What are you looking at?" I said to one couple. I suddenly felt true remorse for every time I'd stared at a parent with a toddler throwing a tantrum. I made a vow to be a better aunt to Tulia's kids if I ever made it out of this parking garage. I pleaded with Cannoli one more time. — Claire Cook

More than 50 percent of Americans have breached the drug laws. Where a law is that widely broken, you can't possibly enforce it against every lawbreaker. The legal system would collapse under the weight of it. So you go after the people who are least able to resist, to argue back, to appeal - the poorest and most disliked groups. In the United States, they are black and Hispanic people, with a smattering of poor whites. — Johann Hari

Could be, but to a historian, it's been going since the beginning. — William Least Heat-Moon

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought. — Maggie Stiefvater

I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless. — Lady Gaga

You're not being tried by common sense," Horace said. "You're being tried by a jury. — William Faulkner

The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points. I call them the 'tolerati' - you know, a group of people who claim to be tolerant, except when they run into someone who disagrees with them. — Greg Gutfeld

But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves ... — Anthony Hope

I guess it's for life beyond these pages. — Markus Zusak

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves. — John F. Kerry

Electrolyte water tastes as bland as my soul feels. — Ashley Poston

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium. — Ansel Adams