1509 Monterey Quotes & Sayings

The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth. — Nirmala Srivastava

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors. — David Ben-Gurion

Beware the man of a single book. — Thomas Aquinas

How does a kidnapping grab you?" She giggled inexplicably. "Absolutely not!" "Oh, you're going to make an exception in this case," she predicted with confidence, even verve. "Elli . . ." he growled in warning. She controlled her humor with a deep breath, though her eyes remained alight. "But Miles - our mysterious and wealthy strangers want to hire Admiral Naismith to kidnap Lord Miles Vorkosigan from the Barrayaran embassy." * — Lois McMaster Bujold

So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what I ordered in a restaurant. My mental palate is also inextricably intertwined with the verbal part of my brain. Food, words, memories all twist together, so it was the obvious way to structure my life. Each memory of food opened up an entire scene for me, it was the key that unlocked everything. — Kate Christensen

It is as hard to take success as it is failure. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

When I'm in the U.K. I can't resist Maltesers and Twiglets - the evil combination. Luckily, I live in the U.S. so can't get them easily, which is probably a good thing. — Jane Seymour

I would have loved to have been a footballer like my great uncle Matt Busby, but I knew quite early on that I wasn't going to make the grade. Luckily I was told by the age of 13 that I wasn't good enough. That's not a bad thing. You see this 'X Factor' generation of kids now who don't accept that they're not good enough. — Brendan Coyle

It was a sad moment. There are sad moments in life, and this was one of them. — Elizabeth Strout

Mind you, I got this reduction without saying a word about what I wanted. I talked all the time about what the other person wanted and how he could get it. — Dale Carnegie

Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by agreements and norms. Anything that deflates the concept of dominance is likely to drive down the frequency of fights between individuals and wars. — Steven Pinker

Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke — The Notorious B.I.G.

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. — Dries Van Noten