Albulescu Mircea Quotes & Sayings

Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet. — Philip Reeve

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market. — Debi Mazar

I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself. — Jodi Picoult

If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst. — Thomas Hardy

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals ... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time. — Cyndi Lauper

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership. — John Ralston Saul

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. — Gerrit Smith

Mary sat on a bench in the park. It was the middle of the night and she was alone and she felt at peace. She leaned back and looked upward. The sky was endless and expansive and the stars stretched on forever. It made her feel very small but it also made her feel very important. Of all of the things that might have ever had the chance to exist in the history of the universe, she had the privilege of being one of them. A living, thinking, feeling being, with the ability to control her own destiny.
As wondrous and expansive as stars and the entire universe were, none of them had this power. None of them had any control. And yet she felt humbled to be a part of it at all. It felt like a trade-off. In this life you could only be one or the other: wondrous and expansive or small and in control. — Olivia Fuller

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone De Beauvoir

What reader or dreamer doesn't imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches and the society ladies who hardly ever have the time to read? — Rawi Hage

Too often we have seen young people in our churches come forward, often at our urging, and surrender to go to a specific mission field. What they need to do is surrender first to the Lord Jesus Christ, and then He can lead them to the appropriate field. In the Bible He never called a person to a place until He first called that person to Himself. — Charles Keen

Arrogance always destroys opportunity — T.D. Jakes

You think that just because you left, it would change how I feel? Well, guess what? You're wrong. I can't help how I feel. I'm still in- — Jessica Sorensen

If the reader possesses any wealth and a comfortable life, he'll step out of himself to see how the other sometimes lives. If he's poor, he won't be reading me because reading me is superfluous for anyone who has a slight permanent hunger. Here I'm playing the role of a safety valve for you and from the massacring life of the average middle class. I'm well aware that it's frightening to step out of oneself, but everything new is frightening. Though the anonymous girl in this story is so ancient that she could be a biblical figure. She was subterranean and had never flowered: I'm lying: she was grass. — Clarice Lispector