Tom Piazza Quotes

#1. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

Charles Bukowski

#2. And you form a map in your heart of all the places that make you so happy,

Tom Piazza

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

Clarice Lispector

#6. I would love to design a maternity clothing line. It is so hard to find stylish clothes for pregnant people ... I would say 99 percent of the clothes I wore were not maternity because I couldn't find anything I liked.

Kourtney Kardashian

#7. New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

Tom Piazza

#8. In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger.

Greg Van Eekhout

#9. The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

Tom Piazza

#10. Sillage, I thought. The lingering impression of a kiss having ended.

Robyn Schneider

#11. I believe in the person I want to become

Lana Del Rey

#12. 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

#13. She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations,

Tom Piazza

#14. He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing?

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#16. And they went off down the street, into the heart of Mardi Gras Day.

Tom Piazza

#17. Oh my God!" I hear him yell to just about everybody. "Did you see that?! That was John Waters. I'm almost certain he has shit his pants!!" I hear grown men laugh in constipated smugness and digestive superiority.

John Waters

#18. I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.

Ronaldinho

#19. 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

#20. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. 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

#22. Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action ... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

Alfredo Jaar

#23. 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

#24. she was practicing a skill that both her parents had acquired as children, a way of maintaining a substitute life

Tom Piazza

#25. At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

Kevin Allen

#26. Fear had driven two enemies into each other's arms and he smiled at that thought. 'They fear me more than they do each other and that is good' he thought.

Raymond E. Feist

#27. 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

#28. Go with what is. Use what happens.

Tom Piazza