Top 25 Carcaterra Quotes
#1. It's always better to like a gangster from a distance anyway. Like a tiger cub in a cage. They always look soft and cute and warm behind those iron bars. Everybody's happy, smilimg, waving, taking pictures. But you take away those bars and all that goes away. All that's left is the fear.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#2. Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Bennett Cerf
#3. Oh, fuck the paperwork. The words come from nowhere and on instinct I grab her and push her against the wall. Clasping both her hands, I pin them above her head so she can't touch me, and once she's secure, I twist my other hand in her hair while my lips seek and find hers.
E.L. James
#4. No amount of saying 'I love you' and 'I trust you' makes it true when it isn't.
Maya Banks
#5. One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
#6. The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#7. Tell me this," Pudge would often ask me, as he sat and read about the exorbitant funeral of a rival. "If he was the guy with all the power, then how come he's riding in the lead car, stuffed inside a coffin?
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#8. When you look at with fear, every road seems to be closed; when you look at with courage, every road seems to be open!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. I'm not saying I'm against evolution. It's okay. Here's the story on reptiles, however. Think this over. They come up on
William Peter Blatty
#10. The night and the streets were ours and the future lay sparkling ahead.
And we thought we would know each other forever.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#11. Revenge. Sweet lasting revenge. And now it was time for all of us to get a taste.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#12. A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#13. My hand will always be imperfect because it's human ... I think that's where the beauty is.
Margaret Kilgallen
#14. We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story ...
Mary Oliver
#15. When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
Kate Fleetwood
#17. Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
Hunter S. Thompson
#18. I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.
Ryan Sheckler
#19. No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#21. He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo's taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond to the action with an action. He was a pure gangster.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#22. We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
#23. Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.
Elizabeth George
#25. It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Mary Augusta Ward
