Sal's Quotes

#1. Observation #3: They gossip.
Can you believe it? I overheard Finn and Doug in the backyard talking about some girl named Dawn who blew off some guy named Simon for some other guy named Rick for like twenty minutes! They sounded like those old mole-hair ladies at Sal's Milshakes.

Kate Brian

#2. He has ultimate faith in our capacity for redemption, no matter how naughty we've been. Through his legend of stealth generosity, he teaches us that if you look for a way to bring wonder to others, you'll find it.

Sal Lizard

#3. Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.

Sal Albanese

#4. To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#5. Why?" Sal clipped. "'Cause this is Frankie. She could be standin' in a field in the middle of the day and a dead body would drop on her.

Kristen Ashley

#6. I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

Sal Mineo

#7. One of the most powerful practices you can use to calm your mind is deep breathing.

Sal Marotta

#8. Sal is the best partner in the world but, sadly, we don't actually work well together. She insists on knowing what we are doing in advance of doing it. I prefer to discover what we end up with. Fundamentally

J. David Cox

#9. Then he did it, he crossed the line again. "Sal - Sal, don't tell anyone, but you're my favorite.

Mariana Zapata

#10. Was a combo of Sal Dali and Ronald McDonald. A fringe celeb wheeled out for Tv appearances.

Saira Viola

#11. Set forth no limits, keep in mind that your potential is boundless.

Sal Martinez

#12. I sometimes wish I could "reboot",' said Sal. 'Empty my head and start over.

Alex Scarrow

#13. I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

Sal Albanese

#14. I remember him standing under a streetlamp.
'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I'll return to the original subject, agreed?'
I certainly agreed.

Jack Kerouac

#15. If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

Sal Albanese

#16. Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch.
"Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

Dean Koontz

#17. You can never hurt me,
And you will never cause me pain
Cause you're made of fire,
And I'm the heavy rain.

Ghaith Sal

#18. When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent place in it.

Michael Lewis

#19. Ugly. A term she had used to describe Sal the first time she saw him. It was hard to see him that way still though, now that she knew his heart.

Jess Petosa

#20. A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.
A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.

Sal Martinez

#21. If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.

Alex Scarrow

#22. Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't know but we gotta go.

Jack Kerouac

#23. The whole point of bike-sharing is to give New Yorkers another way to commute. A lot of folks in Bay Ridge work in downtown Brooklyn or other parts of the borough. For them, it would make more sense to hop on a Citi Bike than to wait for a train or a bus.

Sal Albanese

#24. My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.

Sherri Shepherd

#25. It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Sal Albanese

#26. I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Jack Kerouac

#27. I travel to Chicago a lot. And I've followed Obama through his Senate race and beyond. I found him to be an exceptional candidate who was able to transcend ethnic and racial lines.

Sal Albanese

#28. It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

Sal Albanese

#29. Peace starts within. We are what we give.

Sal Di Leo

#30. I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go ... please?

Alex Scarrow

#31. One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next - no one wanted me.

Sal Mineo

#32. The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.

Sal Martinez

#33. Seek happiness now within you. Don't look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile.

Sal Martinez

#34. I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

Sal Mineo

#35. Hate to ask you this, Sal, but is it all right if we don't go straight back to your house? I think I need to stop at the hospital." I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand as I forced myself to sit up. "Okay," I said, in a small voice.

Mira Grant

#36. The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.

Sal Albanese

#37. By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.

Sal Albanese

#38. Trafficante celebrated in a Tampa restaurant with his lawyer, Ragano. "We'll make

Sal Polisi

#39. At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

Sal Albanese

#40. It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

Sal Albanese

#41. No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.

Sal Mineo

#42. There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.

John Katzman

#43. Sal says it's our responsibility as human beings to never lose our curiosity.

Suzanne Hayes

#44. Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.

Jack Kerouac

#45. By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.

Sal Albanese

#46. At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.

Jack Kerouac

#47. You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

Sal Albanese

#48. To put it bluntly, he could die. Any moment. But so could Robert and Sal and Toby. At least I am here with him. He's not alone. Our other boys? They are alone out there without us.

Suzanne Hayes

#49. He was my Huckleberry, my Han Solo, my one, but most of all he was my Becks and I was his Sal. That was the truth. It

Cookie O'Gorman

#50. I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

Sal Albanese

#51. It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.

Sal Mineo

#52. There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.

Craig Finn

#53. Sal could have killed me for trying to escape the mines, but he didn't. I'd certainly given him plenty of reasons to do it before then as well. I had to help him now. The

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#54. While some women had wing girls for club hopping, Sal had something far more important - a best friend who could run patient interference better than most linebackers.

Carolyn McCray

#55. I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs ... the city's contracting power is huge.

Sal Albanese

#56. I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

Sal Albanese

#57. For mile after mile the strangler fines choked the sal trees, one grey trunk encircling another, until the whole jungle resembled some terrible tangled knot in which it was impossible to tell murderer from victim.

M.J. Carter

#58. If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.

Sal Mineo

#59. Thomas," the boss said. "How's your father doing?" "He's good, Sal." Always the family questions first. That was Sal Demenci's style. He could be about to whack someone and he'd ask how the guy's sister was doing in school.

Gary Ponzo

#60. Work hard, make money, have fun.

Sal Greco

#61. Because life is a game and we're all just trading cards. We play the right hand to get ahead." I studied the smiling, ignorant face of Sal as he stared at his bride. "Death stops the game. It's too final, too inflexible. Death is viciously stubborn.

Karina Halle

#62. Si todos los rios son dulces
de donde saca sal el mar?
If all rivers are sweet
where does the sea get its salt?

Pablo Neruda

#63. The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

Sal Albanese