Gabriella Giovanni Quotes

I have some crack sources - cops who call me, and say, "Hey, there's a dead body in Civic Park, try not to beat the homicide detectives there."
- Gabriella Giovanni, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD ~ Kristi Belcamino

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful. ~ Irving Stone

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once. ~ Giovanni Falcone

To become a poet, the most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish. ~ Nikki Giovanni

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him. ~ Matt Ridley

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us. ~ Nikki Giovanni

And the plague gathered strength as it was transmitted from the sick to the healthy through normal intercourse, just as fire catches on to any dry or greasy object placed too close to it. Nor did it stop there: not only did the healthy incur the disease and with it the prevailing mortality by talking to or keeping company with the sick--they had only to touch the clothing or anything else that had come into contact with or been used by the sick and the plague evidently was passed to the one who handled those things. ~ Giovanni Boccaccio

Every time I look at you I think to myself that I've found perfection. Adam said as he shifted his weight over me. I Looked at him and smiled, 'Now that's flawed perfection". ~ Cassandra Giovanni

It was extremely useful to grow up in front of the camera. It gives the camera no significance. I think it helped me have perspective on things. The attraction that Hollywood can have, I feel like I'm over that. Instead I just concentrate on acting. ~ Giovanni Ribisi

I told myself all sorts of lies, standing there at the bar, but I could not move. And this was partly because I knew that it did not really matter anymore; it did not even matter if I never spoke to Giovanni again; for they had become visible, as visible as the wafers on the shirt of the flaming princess, they stormed all over me, my awakening, my insistent possibilities. ~ James Baldwin

When the body breaks down, it does not all go at once; it goes piece by piece. ~ Janine Di Giovanni

In order to have a happy ending, in order to be triumphant, in order to be heroic, you have to tell your own story. The women's movement knows that; black people know that; brown people know that; yellow people know that. You have to be able to tell your own story in order to show that you are worthy--that you belong. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Humans are the mystery of the universe. ~ Gabriella Jording

We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs. ~ Giovanni Trapattoni

I remember one day - the day I had to leave after a month here alone. I had just had lunch in some small tratoria on the remotest part of the Fondamente Nuove, grilled fish and half a bottle of wine. With that inside, I set out for the place I was staying, to collect my bags and catch a vaporetto. I walked a quarter of a mile along the Fondamente Nuove, a small moving dot in that gigantic watercolor, and then turned right by the hospital of Giovanni e Paolo. The day was warm, sunny, the sky blue, all lovely. And with my back to the Fondamente and San Michele, hugging the wall of the hospital, almost rubbing it with my left shoulder and squinting at the sun, I suddenly felt : I am a cat. A cat that has just had a fish. Had anyone addressed me at that moment, I would have meowed. I was absolutely, animally happy. Twelve hours later, of course, having landed in New York, I hit the worst possible mess in my life - or the one that appeared that way at the time. Yet the cat in me lingered; had it not been for the cat, I'd be climbing the walls now in some expensive institution. ~ Joseph Brodsky

Lia let out a low growl and moved her arrow to the base of his fat throat. "What do you think, Gabi? Would you like to see these nuptials through?"
"Not this day," I said
"How about on the morrow?" Marcello asked, smiling and lifting my hand to his lips. "If I am your groom?"
"Hold that eHarmony thought," Lia whispered in English. "We gotta get out of here. ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

i wanted to take
your hand and run with you
together toward
ourselves down the street to your street
i wanted to laugh aloud
and skip the notes past
the marquee advertising "women
in love" past the record
shop with "The Spirit
In The Dark" past the smoke shop
past the park and no
parking today signs
past the people watching me in
my blue velvet and i don't remember
what you wore but only that i didn't want
anything to be wearing you
i wanted to give
myself to the cyclone that is
your arms
and let you in the eye of my hurricane and know
the calm before

and some fall evening
after the cocktails
and the very expensive and very bad
steak served with day-old baked potatoes
after the second cup of coffee taken
while listening to the rejected
violin player
maybe some fall evening
when the taxis have passed you by
and that light sort of rain
that occasionally falls
in new york begins
you'll take a thought
and laugh aloud
the notes carrying all the way over
to me and we'll run again
together
toward each other
yes? ~ Nikki Giovanni

In the name of peace
They waged the wars
ain't they got no shame ~ Nikki Giovanni

His headstone said
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST
But death is a slave's freedom
We seek the freedom of free men
And the construction of a world
Where Martin Luther King could have lived and
preached non-violence ~ Nikki Giovanni

I don't get it. Last night you were fine, sitting on my face and fucking my brains out. You didn't seem to have a problem with that last night. What the fuck, Gabriella? What the fuck do you want me to do? ~ Jettie Woodruff

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain. ~ Giovanni Boccaccio

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do. ~ Nikki Giovanni

I could feel the muscles in my face twitch as his response sunk into me. It was a resounding no with a slap of you fucking drunk attached. ~ Cassandra Giovanni

Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself. ~ Cassandra Giovanni

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish. ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. ~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step. ~ Giovanni Agnelli

A Writer is a writer, no matter what s/he writes. ~ Gabriella Slade

Don Giovanni, you invited me to sup with you: I have come. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ah," Caspar exclaimed when he walked into the kitchen. "The grey is a good choice. Makes you look much less demon-of-the-night."
"Please, Caspar," he implored. "A date with a live woman. Soon. ~ Elizabeth Hunter

Tonight they granted at least one wish," I whispered, and I lowered my head so our lips drifted over one another. "I love you Adam, no matter how lost you are ... or I am ... I will only ever love you. ~ Cassandra Giovanni

The funny thing about fake ass people is that they don't exist in my world so get real or get the fuck out. ~ John Maiorana (Giovanni)

I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me ... I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away- ~ Nikki Giovanni

The moon is awake, so I am awake. ~ Gabriella Messina

The hole where my heart had finally grown back after the loss of my parents was returning because of the very person who had filled the void ~ Cassandra Giovanni

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. ~ Giovanni Boccaccio

The Directing and Penetrating Vessels originate from the Lower Dan Tian [literally 'Bao']. ~ Giovanni Maciocia

Do as we say, and not as we do ~ Giovanni Boccaccio