Top 65 Vito Quotes
#1. Especially once those poetry events began, because, yeah, the stuff was still on the page, but the page was starting to spill into real space, spill into air, once you could hear it, once there was a typewriter, once there was a body of a typist, it was getting rid of the confines of the page.
Vito Acconci
#2. Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.
Vito Fossella
#3. In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States.
-- Federal Bureau of Investigation
Gennaro F. Vito
#4. I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail.
Vito Acconci
#5. As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
Vito Fossella
#6. I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.
Vito Fossella
#7. The root of heterosexual fear of male homosexuality is in the fact that anyone might be gay. Straight men aren't threatened by a flamboyant faggot because they know they aren't like that; they're threatened by a guy who's just like they are who turns out to be queer.
Vito Russo
#8. Deep thoughts about the universe mean nothing if you keep putting yourself in the centre of it.
Vito Michienzi
#9. Everybody uses labels: they give you a handle on things - an over-simplified handle, sure, but without labels, without ads, without words, the world would be an indistinguishable mass, a blur. You can hope, maybe, that people ascribe so many labels to you that none wins out
Vito Acconci
#10. Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.
Vito Fossella
#11. And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.
Vito Fossella
#12. One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
Vito Fossella
#13. Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.
Vito Fossella
#14. I can't thank you enough for this," Vito said. He sounded humble, for the first time Bella could ever remember. Was this really her dad? Or was this the version the aliens left behind?
Miranda Liasson
#15. In July 1958, Cristoforo Rubino became another informer to fall before testifying against Mafia drug traffickers. A week before he was to testify before a grand jury investigating Vito Genovese and other traffickers, Rubino was shot dead on a Brooklyn sidewalk.98
C. Alexander Hortis
#16. [Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it ... )
Vito Acconci
#17. The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.
Vito Fossella
#18. It's language as a kind of structural system. A diagram of a sentence, now that seems like a kind of architectural model. I don't know how to explain it, but it would be nice to try. Why, why this fascination?
Vito Acconci
#19. From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.
Vito Fossella
#20. Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.
Vito Fossella
#21. If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
Vito Fossella
#22. A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound.
Michael Vito Tosto
#23. Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.
Douglas Adams
#24. My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.
Bam Margera
#26. Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.
Vito Fossella
#27. It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.
Vito Acconci
#28. Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.
Vito Acconci
#29. Then Father Vito gave me this verse for my meditation: 'When God opens a door, no one closes it; when God closes it, no one opens it.' [cf. Rev. 3:7].
Simone Troisi
#30. Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today,
Vito Russo
#31. Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.
Vito Fossella
#32. I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.
Vito Acconci
#33. It struck me as particularly suspicious that Yahweh was described as being remarkably human. I mean, seriously; this God is, at times, almost too human.
Michael Vito Tosto
#34. Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.
Vito Fossella
#35. [My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.
Vito Acconci
#36. Uncle Vito is going to make his own nephew swim with the fishes?
Kristen Ashley
#37. No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it
Vito Russo
#38. The telephone could ring twice, Vito knew he was not going to pick it up. He would put on his leg before his trousers as he did every day on first getting up - at all events nothing good would ever again come by phone, and any way, no matter what, his leg came first.
Jean Echenoz
#39. It is an old stereotype, that homosexuality has to do only with sex while heterosexuality is multifaceted and embraces love and romance.
Vito Russo
#40. There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.
Vito Acconci
#41. Reason is neutral. It has no biases. It has no agendas. There are no personal interests at stake. Reason simply says, "Here is the data, be responsible with it." As such, reason is impartial.
Michael Vito Tosto
#42. If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I went to Jesuit schools that focused on first there's grammar, then there's rhetoric, and rhetoric's usually seen as a kind of degraded method, because you're trying to persuade.
Vito Acconci
#43. I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.
Vito Fossella
#44. Architecture is not about space but about time.
Vito Acconci
#45. If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.
Vito Russo
#46. Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.
Vito Acconci
#47. When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street ... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
Wally Lamb
#48. Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
-Don Vito Corleone
Mario Puzo
#49. You could walk around behind the typist and read the text, which was about hearing, and what you heard was the sound of the typewriter. Of course, this was a pre-electric typewriter, a typewriter that made noise.
Vito Acconci
#50. We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.
Vito Fossella
#51. I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.
Charles Busch
#52. It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.
Vito Dumas
#53. The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.
Vito Fossella
#54. Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.
Vito Fossella
#55. In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
Vito Fossella
#56. Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
Vito Fossella
#57. You can't plead tolerance for gays by saying that they're just like everyone else. Tolerance is something we should extend to people who are not like everyone else.
Vito Russo
#58. The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.
Vito Fossella
#59. Writing was always a laborious thing for me. I never wrote fluently, I never wrote fluidly, there was something very awkward in my writing. But it seemed to me purposely awkward. It's almost as if I made the labor part of writing.
Vito Acconci
#60. Life!' Vito exploded, making me jump. Up and down, good and bad, birth and death, celebration and devastation. If you got any balls at all, you roll with the punches and get the fuck on with it, pardon my French
Kristen Ashley
#61. When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is gay, we're talking about sexual orientation, not their sexual activity.
Vito Russo
#62. In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.
Vito Fossella
#63. Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
Mario Puzo
#64. I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.
Vito Acconci
#65. First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
Vito Fossella
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