Alcala Quotes & Sayings

What is it about men and yelling at a game on television? Don't they realize they can't change the outcome, no matter how loudly they yell? — Melissa Collins

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism ... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle. — R.C. Sproul

I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened. — Justin Alcala

The best horror novels open up, It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air. — Justin Alcala

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent. — Abraham Lincoln

We will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts. — Alain De Botton

Just so you know, I speak English. You don't have to macho-speak with shit like 'you with me' after you macho-speak with a bunch of bossing me around. I get you. I'm with you. Or if I'm not, I'll tell you."
"Noted," he muttered but sounded like he was smiling.
I made the diplomatic decision not to look. — Kristen Ashley

I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes. — Ted Naifeh

The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption. — Steven Magee

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. — W. Somerset Maugham

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in. — Justin Alcala

Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact. — David Foenkinos

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience. — Justin Alcala

Girls, I think. Why do women refer to themselves as girls? It's so weird — Dawn O'Porter

Naturally, I've always been mad about clothes. You don't get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute. — Diana Vreeland

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing. — Justin Alcala

Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison. — Ignatius Of Loyola

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me." — Carl Sandburg

The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened. — Justin Alcala

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype, — Barbara Kruger

If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine. — Kathleen Alcala

The CIA's drone campaign is extraordinarily effective, and the agency is getting progressively better at targeting senior leaders and disrupting their networks. — Joby Warrick

Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere. — Justin Alcala

It is but another instance of injustice, Fray Felipe said. For twenty years we, of the missions, have been subjected to it, and it grows. The sainted Junipero Serra invaded this land when other men feared, and at San Diego de Alcala he built the first mission of what became a chain, thus giving an empire to the world. Our mistake was that we prospered. We did the work, and others reap the advantages. They began taking out mission-lands from us, lands we had cultivated, which had formed a wilderness and which my brothers had turned into gardens and orchards. They robbed us of worldly goods. And not content with that they now are persecuting us. The mission-empire is doomed, caballero. The time is not far distant when mission roofs will fall in and walls crumble away. Some day people will look at the ruins and wonder how such a thing could come to pass. — Johnston McCulley

Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. — Justin Alcala

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords. — James J. Gibson

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. — E. O. Wilson

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake? — Justin Alcala