Alcampo Supermercado Quotes & Sayings

It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would be banned in every country of the world. — David Cronenberg

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us. — Peter Ackroyd

Last night I was struggling with a stomach ache, but [the trainer] gave me some medicine, an IV and I felt good out there today. — Taurean Green

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself. — Jon Meacham

I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family ... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe. — Uwem Akpan

Lately, even the Waybacklist borrowers seem to be missing. Have they Been seduced by some other book club on the other side of town? Have they all bought Kindles?
I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! - but come on, I have a lot of free first chapters to get through. My Kindle is a hand-me-down from my dad, one of the original models< ... > There are newer Kindles with bigger screens and subtler industrial design, but this one is like Penumbra's postcards: so uncool it's cool again. — Robin Sloan

It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured. — Dianne Feinstein

In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild. — Tim McCarver

Each connection that neuroscientists forged between a neurochemical and a behavior, or at least a propensity toward a behavior, seemed to deal another blow to the notion of an efficacious will. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Nothing can be more violent and merciless than a group of true believers, no matter what they choose to believe. — Dee Hock

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. — Orson Scott Card

What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Don't do anything to stop a woman from flying; let fate take its course. — Amado Nervo

Keep behind me, Metatron - wait here - Asriel is suspicious - let me lull him first. When he's off guard, I'll call you. But come as a shadow, in this small form, so he doesn't see you - otherwise, he'll just let the child's daemon fly away. The Regent was a being whose profound intellect had had thousands of years to deepen and strengthen itself, and whose knowledge extended over a million universes. Nevertheless, at that moment he was blinded by his twin obsessions: to destroy Lyra and to possess her mother. He nodded and stayed where he was, while the woman and the monkey moved forward as quietly as they could. — Philip Pullman

The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess. — Emanuel Lasker