Bandini Quotes

#1. Bandini looked at a patch of blue in the east.
'Pretty soon we'll have spring', he said.
'We sure will!

John Fante

#2. Careful, Arturo Bandini: don't strain your eyesight, remember what happened to Tarkington, remember what happened to James Joyce.

John Fante

#3. I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That's your trouble: your ignorance of life.

John Fante

#4. Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla?
Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to,
and not feel ashamed of it.

John Fante

#5. I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

Sarah Zettel

#6. I'm wondering if this was the right choice. This campus is crawling with walking, talking Barbies.

Kandi Steiner

#7. A smile stretches across his [Pigpen] face. "Naw, but we had a chaplain over in Afghanistan. Cool son of a bitch. And he'd do this. Out of nowhere tell a story that would put it in perspective.

Katie McGarry

#8. Whenever you hear yourself or others telling you you cannot do something, do that particular something, and notice how quickly everyone shuts the hell up.

Miya Yamanouchi

#9. I'd rather have rabies than be in love."
"Why?"
"Because at least you can get over rabies with some shots.

Shelly Laurenston

#10. As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

Kelsea Ballerini

#11. Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

R.C. Sproul

#12. It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source.

James W. Hall

#13. Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

Joan Didion

#14. To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.

Malcolm Gets

#15. If we can prevent just one marriage from disintegrating--or just one child from suffering the loss of a family--our effort will be justified.

James C. Dobson

#16. We believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.

Keith B. McMullin

#17. People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.

Stefan Heym

#18. The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

Leo Kottke

#19. I'm grateful for the marker days, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries that remind us to not let the difficult overcome the good.

Alexandra Kuykendall