Annamaria Quotes

#1. Annamaria had preferred oil rather than electric lamps. She said that sunshine grows plants, the plants express essential oils, and years later those oils fire the lamps - giving back 'the light of the other days'.

Dean Koontz

#2. Nobody's inherently bad, said Annamaria. It's all about the choices we make.
And the Deceiver, said Blossom, is always there to whisper the wrong choice in your ear. But I believe remorse can lead to redemption.

Dean Koontz

#3. Annamaria insists that mere hours earlier, I saved entire cities, sparing many hundreds of thousands from nuclear terrorism. Even if that is most likely true, I feel as though, in the process, I have forfeited a piece of my soul.

Dean Koontz

#4. I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.

Melissa McCarthy

#5. We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion.

Dean Koontz

#6. I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.'

Joel Edgerton

#7. Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others.

Dean Koontz

#8. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?

Dean Koontz

#9. Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love.

Dean Koontz

#10. I live and die for the Buckeyes. I also love to play racquetball.

Alan Lowenthal

#11. Mysticism is the acceptance that everything cannot be logically explained.

Frederick Lenz

#12. (Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

Larry Eskridge

#13. Be careful because once you become a part of the world it becomes a part of you, too.

Nicola Yoon

#14. In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#15. Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

Dean Koontz

#16. Every place is the same place in the end.

Dean Koontz

#17. In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#18. Be afraid in proportion to the threat.

Dean Koontz

#19. Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

Dean Koontz

#20. Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved.

Dean Koontz

#21. In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.

G-Eazy

#22. Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there's a safe harbor past the terror.

Dean Koontz

#23. Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Dean Koontz

#24. There will be something very wrong with any place we go.

Dean Koontz

#25. Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

Anagarika Govinda

#26. All death matters."
"Only to the living.

Dean Koontz

#27. Some people's inner child is a colicky baby.

Annamaria Alfieri

#28. Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Dean Koontz

#29. Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

Dean Koontz

#30. Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved ...

Dean Koontz

#31. She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

Dean Koontz

#32. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Ann Brashares