Aechmea Quotes & Sayings

Freedom is willpower to act for a change. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm

I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could. — Lee Child

I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. — Tahereh Mafi

When you're off saving the world, you'll come to a point where you discover it was just yourself that needed saving. — Atle Jarnaes Leroy

Time is short and life fleeting and that nothing matters except that which is eternal. — Stephen R. Lawhead

I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk or, perhaps worse, rather common. Now I half expect this reaction and even find it a little reassuring, maybe even uplifting. Isn't it amazing that somebody like that could produce such and such. — John Allen Paulos

She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars. — Kurt Vonnegut

The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out. — James Horner

Become Your Own Hero — Nate Green

I think that a really good agent should be able to get the right publisher, which the agent has already figured out, get as much money as she can from that publisher, and make a deal, rather than have the amount of money determine the sale. That's what the best agents do. — Jonathan Galassi

It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictional) experiences and stories lead to something banal or completely uninteresting. — Sasa Stanisic

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush. — Soren Kierkegaard

Upon the civilization of the world. The best one can do is to estimate, as intelligently as possible, the national characteristics of the peoples engaged, — Lafcadio Hearn

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it. — Curtis Carlson