Alzando El Quotes & Sayings

Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it speaks of bread or wine or stone or tree, it appeals to the whole of these things, to their ideas; yet each hearer will give to them a peculiar personal embodiment in his imagination. Should the story say 'he ate bread', the dramatic producer or painter can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own. If a story says 'he climbed a hill and saw a river in the valley below', the illustrator may catch, or nearly catch, his own vision of such a scene; but every hearer of the words will have his own picture, and it will be made out of all the hills and rivers and dales he has ever seen, but especially out of The Hill, The River, The Valley which were for him the first embodiment of the word. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there. — Lydia Davis

Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet. — Leigh Bardugo

An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader. — Gary Rohrmayer

We gonna touch the sky — Kanye West

This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year. — Tessa Dare

If you love me, feed my sheep. — Anonymous

Remember how God became one of us? Remember how God ate with us and drank with us, laughed with us and cried with us? Remember how God suffered for us, and died for us, and gave his life for the life of the world? Remember? Remember? — Rachel Held Evans

Sill. Their horses and weapons were confiscated, and they were imprisoned. In a field just — N. Scott Momaday

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something. — Larry Wall

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America. — Sheila Jackson Lee

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale. — Prince

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair. — Iris Murdoch