Alburtis Quotes & Sayings

There are always surprises. You should probably grab a highlighter right now and highlight the crap out of that last sentence. — Michael Makai

If you truly believed you had a benevolent bus driver, and you were certain he was taking you somewhere good, you could just settle in and appreciate the ride. — Maria Semple

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Excellence demands that you be better than yourself. — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

Always be there for others. Always inspire them with your dreams and hope, vision and mission, attitude and aptitude. — Debasish Mridha

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down. — Walter Kirn

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. — Roland Gift

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. — Gautama Buddha

Together we climbed on the Peace City bus and road back towards my house. My almost normal feeling was gone. I was miles from ordinary now. Miles. — Carol Lynch Williams

Out of her mouth came a stream of discrete, miraculous gadgets - tiny but mobile creatures so intricately small that generations marveled and would go on marveling at how the inventor ever got the motors into them. — Richard Powers

China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers. — Howard Schultz

She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing. — Laini Taylor

In fact with his low forehead, ornamental quiffs of hair on the temples, lurching walk and perpetual swelling of the right trouser pocket where he kept a knife, it was obvious at once that Vincenzino was "a man of honour," one of those violent cretins capable of any havoc. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thought she was a completely spellbinding person. Totally unmoved by other people's expectations, fashions or opinions. She's probably the coolest English actress there is. Incredibly idiosyncratic. — Honeysuckle Weeks

Good taste was out of place in the company of death, death itself was the essence of bad taste. — Toni Morrison