Pasquale Quotes

#1. I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

Lisa Unger

#2. It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.

Avigdor Lieberman

#3. I always wanted to design for films.

Ken Adam

#4. For about ten minutes the vengeful crew proceed to maim, strangle, poison, burn, stomp, blind and otherwise have at Pasquale, while he describes intimately his varied sensations for our enjoyment.

Thomas Pynchon

#5. Useless labor, that I feared would stay in my mind, extending into me, into everything. On the occasion of both funerals I made plans ahead of time to visit Pasquale. In those years I did that whenever I could. In prison he had studied a lot, had received his high school diploma, and, recently, a

Elena Ferrante

#6. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?

Jess Walter

#7. Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

Robert Frost

#9. And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking
how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe
Pasquale Tursi said, only, Yes.

Jess Walter

#10. Twenty meters away, Pasquale Tursi watched the arrival of the woman as if in a dream. Or rather, he would think later, a dream's opposite: a burst of clarity after a lifetime of sleep.

Jess Walter

#11. Unfortunately, the contemporary domestic intelligence apparatus is so vast as to render the judiciary incapable of fine-grained review of its decisions.

Frank Pasquale

#12. Some may call me a vigilante. I think i've got problems to fix.

Matt Hilton

#13. St. Paul says, we know that "suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope" [Romans 5:3].

Gianluigi Pasquale

#14. Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Ludovico Ariosto

#15. There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Laura Benanti

#16. Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life
not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.

Jess Walter

#17. You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married.

Jess Walter

#18. In some seasons, Jesus asks us, Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?

Mike Bickle

#19. And while his mother's lecture had gone over his seven-year-old head, Pasquale saw now what she meant
how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

Jess Walter

#20. True love should not fear being wounded

Pasquale M. Palmieri

#21. Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila's capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides.

Elena Ferrante

#22. Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.

Steven Pasquale

#23. Transactions that are too complex to explain to outsiders may well be too complex to be allowed to exist.

Frank Pasquale

#24. A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea."
"That's only three."
Alvis finished his wine. "You have to do disappointment twice.

Jess Walter

#25. Both Pasquale and Rino turned out to be surprisingly good dancers, and we learned from them the tango, the waltz, the polka, and the mazurka.

Elena Ferrante

#26. Kissing making out on the ground Bali Hai Bali Hai Bali Hai!

Steven Pasquale

#27. I had role models in my community, guys that were older than me and played at university or on the national team. Eli Pasquale was always around UVic when I was a young player, and the national team was around Victoria a little bit, so I got to watch those guys and learn from them.

Steve Nash

#28. I pray with my knees bow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it. Pasquale waited until the

Jess Walter

#30. One thing I learned over the years since then is that the hours you work on a show are directly related to the happiness of the head writer's marriage.

Sarah Silverman

#31. Stand-up would be my worst nightmare.

Steven Pasquale