Giovanni's Room Quotes

#1. I scarcely know how to describe that room. It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every room I find myself in hereafter will remind me of Giovanni's room.

James Baldwin

#2. I understood why Giovanni had wanted me and had brought me to his last retreat. I was to destroy this room and give to Giovanni a new and better life. This life could only be my own, which, in order to transform Giovanni's, must first become a part of Giovanni's room.

James Baldwin

#3. I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart

Madonna Ciccone

#4. Poetry is motion graceful
as a fawn
gentle as a teardrop
strong like the eye
finding peace in a crowded room

Nikki Giovanni

#5. Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.

Jacques Diouf

#6. All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

John Cassian

#7. Always looking toward the next moment, the next month, the next event, rarely allowing myself the privilege of fully participating and embracing the happenings that were right before me for that day.

Priscilla Shirer

#8. I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

Tony Kushner

#9. I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

Will Smith

#10. We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

Giovanni Ribisi

#11. How would she ever look at Redding again? How could she face his critical scrutiny?

Eliza Lloyd

#12. Someone once told me that part of you lives on so long as somebody remembers you.

Justin Cronin

#13. People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.

Banks

#14. One person's going to win, and everybody else is going to not win. So let's not feel like we're losers. Let's utilize the cultural opportunities, get to know the other players on the other team, look around you, enjoy your world series.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#15. Banking is no longer somewhere you go, it's something you do.

Brett King