Alumno Digital Quotes & Sayings

The awareness that the distinction between "over here" and "over there," or between "home" and "abroad" is often a false one has never left me. — Christopher Hitchens

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring — Robyn Davidson

When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position. — Twyla Tharp

My sickness is a lot worse than you think: it has far deeper roots. And that's why I want you to go on ahead of me if you can. Don't wait for me. Sleep with other girls if you want to. Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life. I don't want to interfere with anybody's life. Like I said before, I want you to come to see me every once in a while, and always remember me. That's all I want. — Haruki Murakami

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. — Mark Twain

Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch. — Bill O'Reilly

Before you deride the "mainstream media," note that it is no longer the mainstream. It is derision that is mainstream and easy, and actual journalism that is edgy and difficult. So try for yourself to write a proper article, involving work in the real world: traveling, interviewing, maintaining relationships with sources, researching in written records, verifying everything, writing and revising drafts, all on a tight and unforgiving schedule. — Timothy Snyder

Your memories will be a flock of birds, silently flying in the sky. You will see them flying in and see them flying away. The memories will disappear and there will be nothing left. — Henning Mankell

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. — David Frost

The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh's empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore. — Jack Gilbert

The term "rock" has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star! — Ian Astbury

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met. — William, Saroyan