Pinnacolo Mira Quotes

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone. ~ Mira Sorvino

Let's have ourselves a revolution. ~ Mira Grant

It's amazing how effective simple disorientation is as a mechanism for controlling people. ~ Mira Grant

If I were two inches tall
I would sit on your shoulder all day
and nurture a relationship with your earlobe
my hands would be too small to effectively touch you
I would create empty space using the tip of my tongue
and feel afraid of every bone in my body
especially my sit bones ~ Mira Gonzalez

Little boy with faith so thin,
Little girl so strong within,
I said I'd never leave you, and I'm sorry, but I lied.
If you're set to pay the price,
Learn the ways of sacrifice,
Leave this world to grieve you, take a breath, and step outside.

The broken doors are waiting, down the path you've always known.
My darling ones, be careful now, and don't go out alone. ~ Mira Grant

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had. ~ Mira Grant

Being able to be presented with differing opinions on the same issue is one of the glories of a free media, and it should make people stop and think. But a lot of people don't want to. They don't want to admit that whatever line being touted by their idol of the moment might not be unbiased and without ulterior motive. ~ Mira Grant

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien."
"Yeah, but he's a cute one. ~ Mira Grant

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same. ~ Mira Nair

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. ~ Mira Sorvino

Acting is what happens on the way. ~ Mira Sorvino

I mean, if you're really plunging - you said plunging, right? - into this book, then tethering yourself to every single guidepost along the way isn't really going to make that happen." Mr. Tipton's mirth was palpable. "So you think critical reading is a useless activity? That your classmates are just, what, not experiencing the book?" "I think the best way to experience this book is to let it happen to you and think about what it all means later." "Later when?" "Later when you're a high school English teacher. ~ Mira Jacob

So hell, maybe we just killed the last grizzly in the world. I'd feel bad about that if it hadn't been an infected zombie bear that wanted to eat my delicious flesh. ~ Mira Grant

The thought was sobering. How many people's motives didn't match up with what I'd taken for their actions? How many villains were the heroes of their own stories? I didn't know, and I was terribly afraid that I was never going to find out. ~ Mira Grant

It's that zombie virus thing that was on the news!" shouted a man in a Starfleet uniform. It was Next Generation command red, but he was running away from the danger, not toward it. Maybe that was how the command crew stayed alive. "They'll eat you if you stay here!" "They ~ Mira Grant

The band in the ballroom announced the cover of a special request, and after a pause, the woman's voice sang out the breathy first line of Etta James's "At Last." Chairs barked as guests rose to greet the champion of all wedding songs, the one that always brought indifferent or fighting or estranged couples to the dance floor for momentary reconciliation. ~ Mira Jacob

Small Planes, Large Fences, and a Rather Daunting Number of Zombie Kangaroos, Because That Is Exactly What This Day Needed ~ Mira Grant

Science is a powerful tool, but like any tool, it doesn't care whether it hurts you. Fire warms us, cooks our food, protects us from predators, but it will burn us if we let it. Fire is more than happy to eat us all alive. Science is fire writ large. ~ Mira Grant

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about. ~ Mira Nair

I don't deal well with being alone. Maybe that's why I decided to go crazy instead. ~ Mira Grant

Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal. ~ Mira Grant

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal. ~ Mira Grant

What chatty Madam Shpolyanski mentioned had conjured up Mira's image with unusual force. This was disturbing. Only in the detachment of an incurable complaint, in the sanity of near death, could one cope with this for a moment. In order to exist rationally, Pnin had taught himself ... never to remember Mira Belochkin - not because ... the evocation of a youthful love affair, banal and brief, threatened his peace of mind ... but because, if one were quite sincere with oneself, no conscience, and hence no consciousness, could be expected to subsist in a world where such things as Mira's death were possible. One had to forget - because one could not live with the thought that this graceful, fragile, tender young woman with those eyes, that smile, those gardens and snows in the background, had been brought in a cattle car and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart, into the gentle heart one had heard beating under one's lips in the dusk of the past. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

If they really wanted some fancy new term for "zombie" to catch on, they should have made it easy to shout at the top of your lungs, ~ Mira Grant

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity. ~ Mira Grant

Sometimes you need lies to stay alive. ~ Mira Grant

This was it: this was the moment where I would have to decide whether I wanted to be the girl I'd always been, or whether I was ready to become someone new. Someone who was brave enough to crawl into the dark alone, and see where the risk would take her. Someone who was going to survive. ~ Mira Grant

It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else. ~ Mira Gonzalez

Forgive not because the other person deserves to be forgiven but because you deserve to be at peace. Forgive because you love yourself more than the need to be "right. ~ Mira Kelley

As soon as the dead started walking, they stopped sharing their secrets with the living. ~ Mira Grant

We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you. ~ Mira Jacob

Last guy I was interested in turned out to be an incestuous necrophiliac," she said. "So no, not currently dating, and definitely not doing any more shopping in the 'sociopath' category ~ Mira Grant

For almost a minute the two of us were locked in a battle of wills that had no possible winner, only a different order of losing. ~ Mira Grant

You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore ... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all. ~ Mira Grant

[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about it. I think I'm getting closer to my instincts now. I don't think there needs to be a plan. I think there needs to be love. I think you need to love what you're doing and then the rest is anybody's guess. ~ Mira Sorvino

The next person who says "I'm sorry" is going to get punched in the nose. Because "I'm sorry" doesn't do a damn thing except remind me that this can't be fixed. This is my world now. And I don't want it. ~ Mira Grant

She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after. ~ Mira Grant

It's just an expensive eyesore announcing to the world that he's too hip to get his news online like the rest of the world," she reported dutifully. "How about you, Guy? Any trouble on the grounds? ~ Mira Grant

I record the events of my life, filling up one notebook after another. Maybe I'm not getting the details exactly right, but it doesn't matter. The strict facts hold no currency here. What counts is the saliva I just spat on this very sheet of paper. The thick gob slowly dissolves a small circle in the text and turns the words translucent. The ink starts to bleed. The fibers loosen. If you run your fingers along this paragraph, you'll find the site where I stabbed my thumb straight through the page. There is an entire world in that hole. ~ Jeff Jackson

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. ~ Mira Nair

Both my parents were Irish, and the Irish word for "suntan" is "burn. ~ Mira Grant

Do not grieve the gone,
For life is just a loan,
A miracle, a gift for ones who come from within,
To love and carry on. ~ Mira Midha