Ciro's Quotes

#1. I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I always remember this energy force, this woman flying around the room and singing these harmonies so everyone went, 'Wow!' So I thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

Liza Minnelli

#2. Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts ... 'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's ... everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be ... a great gig.'

Johnny Rogan

#3. We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

Gayle Forman

#4. I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

Raymond Loewy

#5. Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and the Ocaina language is basically about to disappear in this generation. You know, there are very few people that speak it. And he's one of them.

Ciro Guerra

#6. Ciro, who loved machinery and its design, thought the tanks were ugly. What beauty could be found in something that was created with the sole purpose of destruction?

Adriana Trigiani

#7. All around him during the war, Ciro saw men lie, engage in acts of cowardice, create feeble attachments to women, only to leave them - men acting in pursuit of their own comforts, men behaving without grace. And

Adriana Trigiani

#8. There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

Robert Duncan

#9. Ciro carried himself like a general in full regalia, when in fact he wore secondhand clothes from the donation bin.

Adriana Trigiani

#10. The weight of what had transpired on this day finally settled on Ciro. This wasn't really their home, and the nuns weren't truly family. The security they had provided was only on loan.

Adriana Trigiani

#11. Ciro pointed through the

Adriana Trigiani

#12. I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

Kevin Durant

#13. Ciro took Enza's face in his hands. I have loved you all of my life. I was a boy who knew nothing, but when I met you, somehow I understood everything

Adriana Trigiani

#14. It takes more than genius to keep me reading a book.

E.B. White

#15. The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

Tom Cole

#16. The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing that it was important for us and for the outside world, this traditional knowledge, it was a big deal to them.

Ciro Guerra

#17. The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

Ciro Guerra

#18. Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a different perspective. It sounds romantic, but it's not an easy process at all.

Ciro Guerra

#19. But let not little men triumph upon knowing that Johnson was an HYPOCHONDRIACK, was subject to what the learned, philosophical, and pious Dr. Cheyne has so well treated under the title of 'The English Malady.

Samuel Johnson

#20. In the last moments of his life Ciro realized that a truly good man is a rarity, a speck of gold in a mountain of slag.

Adriana Trigiani

#21. You must pray.'
'No, Sister.' Ciro smiled weakly. 'I'm not a good Catholic.'
'Well, Ciro, you're a good man, and that's more important.

Adriana Trigiani

#22. Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

Paulo Coelho

#23. His lips, wet, met mine with a brush of heat. I felt both his hands wrap around my back, holding me to him as if he'd fall apart otherwise. While the rain pummeled the roof, the whole world went silent.

Kiera Cass

#24. Ciro was beginning to understand the concept of America, and it was changing his view of the world and of himself. A man could think clearly in a place that gave breadth to his dreams. There

Adriana Trigiani

#25. The world was noisy . As Ciro looked around, he was the only person who seemed to be listening.

Adriana Trigiani

#26. Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Kahlil Gibran

#27. There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

Jessica Valenti