Adquierelo Quotes & Sayings

They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have been interested in her just because of that, and curious, but their common past was a wall of indifference between them. Kitty knew too well that she had done nothing to beget her father's affection, he had never counted in the house and had been taken for granted, the bread-winner who was a little despised because he could provide no more luxuriously for his family; but she had taken for granted that he loved her just because he was her father, and it was a shock to discover that his heart was empty of feeling for her. She had known that they were all bored by him, but it had never occurred to her that he was equally bored by them. He was as ever kind and subdued, but the sad perspicacity which she had learnt in suffering suggested to her that, though he probably never acknowledged it to himself and never would, in his heart he disliked her. — W. Somerset Maugham

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers. — Gil Kane

When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not in himself. — Michel De Montaigne

As our Lord said, "Where your treasure is, there is your heart also." Hence the least love of God is worth more than the knowledge of all created things. — Fulton J. Sheen

The art of publicity is a black art. — Learned Hand

Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you. — Gore Verbinski

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. — Carl Sagan

A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man. — J-Ax

You're so square, baby, I don't care. — Elvis Presley

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society. — Samantha Morton

The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use. — Michael Dertouzos

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man who reaches it will be capable of spontaneously producing, with no effort of hesitation, a magnificent and wonderfully ordered expression of his nature and our destinies. — Paul Valery