Vescovi Quotes

#1. I am not a centrist.

Bella Abzug

#2. Streptomycin belongs to a group of compounds, known as antibiotics, which are produced by microorganisms and which possess the property of inhibiting the growth and even of destroying other microorganisms.

Selman Waksman

#3. High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

Jack Canfield

#4. Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.

Tony Fernandes

#5. A sort of botanical glory-hole

John Wyndham

#6. ...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]

James Vescovi

#7. I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

Denis Leary

#8. America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#9. She had long ago concluded that it was impossible to find guys who were considerate and sensitive as well as hot. Well, impossible to find some that didn't already have boyfriends of their own anyway.

Suzanne Wrightt

#10. None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.

James Vescovi

#11. If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.

Jarvis Cocker

#12. I settled back into his arm. "If you produce a flannel graph out of somewhere, you will make me very happy."
He smiled. He was smiling a lot these days. "No flannel graph. I do a mean shadow puppet, though.

Temple West

#13. Creation demands belief beyond reason.

Kevin Ashton

#14. If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

T. Colin Campbell

#15. I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly ... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

Carl Jung

#16. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop! ... ever ... until you are dead!

James Cameron

#17. Anyone who thought death warmed over didn't look good, had never seen this guy.

Donna Augustine

#18. Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. ... According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober teachers to go around. [Author's grandparents educational background.]

James Vescovi