Quotes About Presto

#1. They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder.

Henry Miller

#2. The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except - hey presto! - when the protagonist feels like getting laid. Especially common in science fiction; apparently many writers assume that in the future women will die out.

Howard Mittelmark

#3. I am Music. And I am here for the soul of Frankie Presto. Not all of it. Just the rather large part he took from me when he came into this world. However well used, I am a loan, not a possession. You give me back upon departure. I

Mitch Albom

#4. Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a label on the restored find and - hey, presto! - once again everything fits splendidly into the approved pattern of thought.

Erich Von Daniken

#5. You want them to give Batman counselling sessions?"
"It's genius. Just make Bruce Wayne get over his shit, then, presto, no more Batman. The baddies win by default.

Jay Stringer

#6. News is news and spin is spin, and when you introduce the second to the first, what you have isn't news anymore. Hey, presto, you've created opinion.

Mira Grant

#7. The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.

Craig Brown

#8. Reckless archaism. Arpeggiating under the influence. Presto in an andante zone.

Richard Powers

#9. Sand is one of the best exfoliates out there! Take a handful of sand and rub it on your skin in small circles. When you're done, wash it off and presto ... you get spa like skin, without the price tag.

Jenna Morasca

#10. A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, ... not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Salman Rushdie

#11. Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

#12. Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio.

Agatha Christie

#13. If Jones magically converted 50 outs a year into walks, presto: now he's Ken Griffey, Jr.

Baseball Prospectus

#14. The Singularity is at once an escape and a birth fantasy. I said to him: A Zeus dream that avoids the organic body altogether. Brand-new creatures burst forth from men's heads. Presto! The mother and her evil vagina disappears.

Siri Hustvedt

#15. When you have a lot of books,you don't have to worry about getting bored unless you don't know the essence of reading.Reading is not just about reading,you have to use your imagination,make the characters alive and be one of them,feel them ... and presto,you'll never be alone!

Mareez Reyes

#16. Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

Michael Marshall Smith

#17. He turns the key.
Presto!
It opens this book of odd tales
which transform the Brothers Grimm.
Transform?
As if an enlarged paper clip
could be a piece of sculpture.
(And it could.)

Anne Sexton

#18. There are plenty of genre-crossover books, films, and games out there, but to do the job well, you have to do more than just smoosh a couple of 'in' concepts together, and hey presto, instant millions.

Jay Kristoff

#19. Bring new eyes to a world even new lenses and presto, new world.

John Steinbeck

#20. Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

Tom Hodgkinson

#21. There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

David Korten

#22. I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

Mark Richards

#23. I'm a fixer, Allie. Taking care of others is what I do. I don't know how to turn it off.

Melissa A. Craven

#24. Monsieur, please stay back. You are old and frail, and I would not have you hurt in this clash.

Paul Tobin

#25. Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

Lena Dunham

#26. If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

Walter Payton

#27. I have come a hundred miles," said a minister, "to get some of Mr. Moody's spirit." " You don't want my spirit," was the reply. "What you want is the Spirit of God.

Dwight L. Moody

#28. From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

Frederick Lenz

#29. I didn't always want to be a dad.

Liam Gallagher

#30. We must determine where our collective existence will be found: in a museum, or in the stars.

C.C. Conrad

#31. In terms of flu prevention, for my son I'll do a quick smoothie, usually with spinach, avocado or broccoli. And then throw in strawberries and blueberries to hide the greens.

Tia Mowry