Acentos Quotes & Sayings

my stints of employment had been eaten away by the acid of boredom, the drip-by-drip sameness of a job causing my mind to yawn and sneak off elsewhere. — Ivan Doig

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands ... a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made. — Mark Twain

I don't particularly want Kay to be a good person. I'm perfectly comfortable thinking about her as the wicked witch — Cynthia Hand

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers. — David Hemmings

If it really were impossible to derive an ought from the is of the human design, then the practice of medicine would make no sense. Natural — J. Budziszewski

Harry and Hermione supported Ron over the threshold, into the one-roomed cabin, which had an enormous bed in one corner, a fire crackling merrily in another. Hagrid — J.K. Rowling

I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off. — Robert Scheer

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. — William Wilberforce

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture. — Marina Abramovic

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated. — Eddie Vedder

I'm motivated by very small successes. — Beth Brooke

As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me. — Kirsten Gillibrand