Top 59 Piazza Quotes
#1. Shall we take these candles with us and sit for a while on the piazza, or do you want to go to bed and nurse that tooth?"
Nurse that tooth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#2. On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.
Aaron Lazar
#3. Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of baseball, only got over 50%. Johnny Bench is the best catcher in the history of baseball, but Piazza has all the record for catchers as far as offensively.
Pete Rose
#4. Rock 'n' roll ... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.
Angie Everhart
#5. When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.
Jasmine Guinness
#7. Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate ...
Shana Alexander
#8. A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
Renzo Piano
#9. In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.
Owen Wilson
#10. In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.
Victoria Clark
#11. How could you not wish to see what tomorrow brings? How could you not want to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin, to eat ice cream in the Piazza Navona, to watch the children throwing coins into the fountain?
Anthony Horowitz
#12. The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea; she dressed as if for dinner. The tea-table offered an anomalous and picturesque repast; and on leaving it they all sat and talked in the large piazza, or wandered about the garden in the starlight.
Henry James
#13. I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.
Mike Piazza
#14. A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.
Vincent Piazza
#15. As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.
Vincent Piazza
#16. And so they couldn't have known exactly how despicable a lie it was when the president told the news media later that week that nobody could have predicted the levee breaks.
Tom Piazza
#17. I found it hugely insulting that people believed I'd go so far out of my way - living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs - to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I'd be gay all the way.
Mike Piazza
#18. She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations,
Tom Piazza
#19. And they went off down the street, into the heart of Mardi Gras Day.
Tom Piazza
#20. I'm a real low profile guy. So a date night for me is kind of curled up at home and watching something ... have a nice glass of wine, a nice meal and we're all set.
Vincent Piazza
#21. A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.
Vincent Piazza
#23. I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and nice cream soda. It's fantastic, but I have to be careful, or I'm going to get really fat.
Vincent Piazza
#24. In New Orleans, on the other hand, geography and time, food, music, holidays, modes of dress and ways of speaking, are part of an integrated fabric. People dress in certain ways for certain events, and certain foods are eaten on certain days,
Tom Piazza
#25. The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.
Tom Piazza
#26. When you're 25, you can eat hamburgers and pizza and drink beer and stay out all night and come out the next day and drink a couple cups of coffee and just play. If I did that today, my heart would stop and I'd need a stretcher and an IV.
Mike Piazza
#27. New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.
Tom Piazza
#28. I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.
Vincent Piazza
#29. Any time you get a chance to play a great role, I consider all the qualities I may or may not have attributed to that character and how I would fit into the story.
Vincent Piazza
#30. I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.
Mike Piazza
#31. A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached ... [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz ... This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.
Tom Piazza
#32. I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.
Vincent Piazza
#33. Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.
Mike Piazza
#34. Their Big Chief, Bo Dollis, would marshal them all together and they would start off down Dryades, with Chief Bo chanting one of the Indian songs accompanied by drums and tambourines, and the whole gang shouting back the antiphonal response.
Tom Piazza
#35. And you form a map in your heart of all the places that make you so happy,
Tom Piazza
#36. she was practicing a skill that both her parents had acquired as children, a way of maintaining a substitute life
Tom Piazza
#37. Go with what is. Use what happens.
Tom Piazza
#38. Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.
Mike Piazza
#39. New Orleanians knew how to turn deprivation into an asset; they had the best gallows humor going, they danced at funerals, they insisted on prevailing.
Tom Piazza
#40. I live in N.Y.C. and walk everywhere, so I like stylish shoes that are comfortable.
Vincent Piazza
#41. I think New York style is unique because there's something resourceful about it. Utilitarian. Whereas in Los Angeles, I find people make their cars a day closet. Which, I guess, is resourceful in a different way.
Vincent Piazza
#42. It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.
Mike Piazza
#43. I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.
Mike Piazza
#44. A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.
Mike Piazza
#45. I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.
Vincent Piazza
#46. You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Mike Piazza
#47. Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.
Vincent Piazza
#48. I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.
Mike Piazza
#49. In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God's sake.
Tom Piazza
#50. I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.
Vincent Piazza
#52. I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on 'Boardwalk Empire.'
Vincent Piazza
#53. At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it didn't make financial sense to spend the money to treat her, or because you were too busy to spend the time to heal her sick spirit?
Tom Piazza
#54. One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.
Mike Piazza
#55. I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
Mike Piazza
#56. I really think that the 'Jersey Boys' musical - and this is just my opinion - lends itself to being cinematic in some way, because it's a jukebox musical; the characters break into song only for the scene transitions.
Vincent Piazza
#57. I fell for MUJI socks at their store in N.Y.C.'s JFK airport, and now I get them in bundles.
Vincent Piazza
#59. I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
Mike Piazza
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