Adolecer Rae Quotes & Sayings

Sounds of a San Juan night, drifting across the city through layers of humid air; sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks, the lonely sound of time passing in the long Caribbean night. — Hunter S. Thompson

But one of the responsibilities of leadership is to mask one's own fears, to project confidence at all times. — Neal Stephenson

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are. — Robin Williams

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works. — Jay S. Walker

One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it. — Stephen Fry

Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen. — Bill Gates

It's not that we don't have talent in our country; the talent is, in fact, not required today. — Shreya Ghoshal

Actually, I'd better look that thing up and find out what it's called. I'm pretty sure it has a name." "Everything has a name!" "Yes, I guess that's right. — Kim Stanley Robinson

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a writer manages to be fascinating about his own novels, then there are only two possibilities: either he is merely voicing out loud what he wrote in his book, and he is a parrot; or he is explaining interesting things that he didn't discuss in his book, in which case the book in question is a failure since it does not live up to its claims. — Amelie Nothomb

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. — Christian Nestell Bovee

And there it was - that was who she was. Split right down the middle, she bore her father's strength, her father's drive. She carried her mother's compassion, her mother's love for Nubrevna. — Susan Dennard

But however small it was [the thought], it had, nevertheless, the mysterious property of its kind -put back into the mind, it became at once very exciting, and important; and as it darted and sank, and flashed hither and thither, set up such a wash and tumult of ideas that it was impossible to sit still. — Virginia Woolf