Alburo Quotes & Sayings

Writing is traveling through uncharted territory - your mind. You are the first traveler, and your essays are the world's first maps. — Harry Bauld

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies. — Amelie Mauresmo

Some o' the words in this book might not be immediately pronounceable for some readers because they have foreign origins. Heck, I needed help myself. But I like learning new words and how to say them, so I'm providing a wee guide here for a few names and such in case you're of a like mind and want to know how to say them out loud. No one is going to confiscate your cake if you say them wrong, but you might score a piece of cake if you say them right. You know what? You should just have a piece of cake anyway. You deserve cake. — Kevin Hearne

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. — Walter Scott

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain. — Robert Burns

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it. — Nawal El Saadawi

Had I a hundred hands, I could employ them all. The harvest is very great. I am ashamed I can do no more for him who has done so much for me. — George Whitefield

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically. — Muhammad Ali

For a second," Megan added, "I thought you were going to be forced into the bathroom there with me. Too bad. It would have been amusing to watch you squirm. — Brandon Sanderson

Hope attacking doubt. It seemed crazy. — James Patterson

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on. — Jonny Greenwood

Look, I don't want to stand here and watch you commune with 'other.' It's been a long night, my brain is fried and my emotions shot. You can stay here and do your hocus-pocus cat prowl, looking for your invisible friends all you want. I'm going to head off to my media room and veg. (Danger)
If you need me, call. (Alexion)
Yeah, I'll just do that when I need the great big, hulking he-man to charge in and save my weak, girly butt. (Danger) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer. — Erma Bombeck

Excuse me, lieutenant. I am not that kind of Underlord. — Bree Despain