Acordando In English Quotes & Sayings

By contrast, a schoolteacher in North Carolina recounted the story of a sick black woman preparing for death. She gave the teacher her will, plans for a funeral and a grave, and insurance policies, requesting that she look after them. When the teacher asked her if she wanted to see her husband, who had deserted her, she replied, "No, and if you ever hear from him, tell him I don't leave him even a good wish." She then displayed an envelope, containing what she called her most prized possession, and handed it to the teacher for safekeeping. "When I am gone, no one will care about this envelope. Will you promise to keep it, so I will know I am not all gone so soon?" The envelope contained college credits she had accumulated after attending night school while working all day. 2 — Leon F. Litwack

So what I want to know is, when I'm asleep, do I really remember how to fly? And forget how when I wake up? Or am I just dreaming I can fly?"
"When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget."
"But that's not fair!"
"No. — Neil Gaiman

Most of my education has been around food. — Marcus Samuelsson

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative. — Jill Soloway

I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats. — Diane Paulus

The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it's easy for me to travel. — JR

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life. — Gregory Allen Howard

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live. — Konrad Lorenz

My women are always victorious. — Helmut Newton

She felt as though she'd been unforgivably negligent - careless! sloppy! - with the most precious, wonderful gift she'd ever received. — Liane Moriarty

Books do not age as you or I do, they will speak on to generations we will never see. — Corrie Ten Boom