Torino Quotes

#1. In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door in 'The Bucket List.' In 'Gran Torino,' the cranky pensioner played by Clint Eastwood not only owned a 1972 GT Sport, he also used to build cars like that at the Ford plant.

Richard Corliss

#2. Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

Alberto Tomba

#3. In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

Clint Eastwood

#4. Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

James Toback

#5. At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.

John Ridley

#6. When I was a player, I worried only about myself. Good money and easy work.

Mickey Cochrane

#7. But for me to give you Mathew right off the bat...that's me trusting you, It's me saying hi, welcome to my life, not everything is perfect or edited with jump cuts. That's Tyler. You know Tyler. It's time for me to tell you all of Mathew's stories." (pg 4)

Tyler Oakley

#8. A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.

Hualing Nieh Engle

#9. I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.

Claire Danes

#10. My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Imelda Marcos

#11. Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.
God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.

Anne Rice

#12. It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.

Philip Yancey

#13. There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.

Kayla Krantz

#14. After all, humans - especially adult ones - want to believe the most mundane truths possible. They need to, in order to stop their world-views, and their sanity, from capsizing and plunging them into the vast ocean of the incomprehensible.

Matt Haig

#15. When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I've been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey.

Chris Christie

#16. Being a question on 'The Weakest Link,' that was quite a moment.

Katherine Jenkins

#17. Anyone can do whatever they want in life, this is our world to play in.

Chad Hofmann