Pia Toscano Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
-
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
-
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
-
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
-
I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
-
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
-
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
-
I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
-
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
-
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
-
I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
-
My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
-
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
-
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
-
My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
-
I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
-
When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
-
I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.
-
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
-
It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.
-
If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.
