Murano Quotes

#1. Mama! They must take ship. It is an island. One does not simply walk into Murano.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#2. Anyone who knew the recipe of the alchemists could make gold, but only the artisans of Murano could make glass so fine, one could nearly touch one's fingers together on either side; cristallo without an imperfection or blemish, clear as the sky, with a sparkle to rival that of diamonds.

Ruth Nestvold

#3. The Vatican takes your breath away.

Joe Elliott

#4. Val was eating cornflakes. She ate very little else, at home. They were light, they were pleasant, they were comforting, and then after a day or two they were like cotton wool.

A.S. Byatt

#5. Rise like the hero you were born to be, or die the slave you think you are.

Michael Joseph Murano

#6. Time flows like memories on the shores of the past.

Michael Joseph Murano

#7. Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

Alicia Keys

#9. What you can't run away from, you have to face

Lilith Saintcrow

#10. She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.

Kat Rosenfield

#11. Performing was something I could cling to. It was the only thing I had some control over and that's why I did it. If I hadn't, I'm not sure which way I'd have gone.

Sarah Brightman

#12. My rookie year, I was very immature.

Dennis Rodman

#13. Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

Tyrese Gibson

#15. I'm so much more famous than I am financially successful.

Roseanne Barr

#16. concept: the universe hears you crying and sings a little song for you. the universe hopes you can hear it

L.J. Buchanan

#17. Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and cowards.

Christopher Isherwood

#18. Optimisn is a choice. Cynicism isnt smarter - it's just safer.

Jewel

#19. Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.

Michael Joseph Murano