Brandolini Family Quotes

#1. I could conquer the world with just one hand as long as you were holding the other.

Kira Johns

#2. How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions

Miguel Syjuco

#3. But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless.

Louise Penny

#4. The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Calvin Trillin

#5. Come on, Marianna! Women are like Priuses - although we can go for miles and miles without it, sometimes we still need to get filled up!

Alexandra Brenton

#6. Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

Leonard Bernstein

#7. My favorite theory is one I call the Get-Along-or-Die Theory. In warm places, this theory states, life is too easy; your next meal simply falls from a coconut tree. Cooperation with others is optional. In colder places, though, cooperation is mandatory.

Eric Weiner