17713 Quotes & Sayings

Marquez was not born in Colombia.
He was born in Macondo,
And his Macondo is his La Mancha. — Dejan Stojanovic

The Greek Civil War led to three decades of illegality for the Left, which had to operate under front organisations. The Cold War entrenched in power - backed by the US and Britain - a monarchist, authoritarian right for whom political violence was customary. — Anonymous

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill. — Harper Lee

No offense, but you're not exactly an expert on judging people's emotions."
"I'm not sure what you mean by that."
"Sure you do."
"If you're talking about Rayna, then you're wrong. She loves me. She just won't admit it."
I roll my eyes. "Right. She's playing hard to get, is that it? Bashing your head with a rock, splitting your lip, calling you squid breath all the time."
"What does that mean? Hard to get?"
"It means she's trying to make you think she doesn't like you, so that you end up liking her more. So you work harder to get her attention."
He nods. Exactly. That's exactly what she's doing. — Anna Banks

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love. — Billy Corgan

Although he may not be human, it's good that Messi still thinks he is. — Javier Mascherano

So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun. — John Mayer

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable. — Paulo Coelho

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance — Zig Ziglar

I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right. — Corey Clark

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption. — Rex Tillerson