Amelius Carrillo Quotes & Sayings

So you weren't in college."
"I wasn't, no." She takes another sip. "Your father was though. He was visiting for spring break. I mugged him."
"You what?"
"You have to understand I didn't make very much money, even with two jobs. It hardly even paid for my food. I couldn't fish, because-"
"You didn't want anyone to sense you in the water." Otherwise, she could have been pretty self-sufficient.
She nods. "So one day I see this group of cocky college students, spending money left and right. Pulling wads of cash out of their pockets to pay for small purchases, like ice cream." She rolls her eyes. "They were flashing it. They wanted people to know they were rich."
"Doesn't mean they wanted people to mug them," I mutter. — Anna Banks

Only once did he remark when the starter,which he was trying to open,literally fell to pieces in his hands,:'If you would write for those filthy boulevard papers,monsieur,you could soon buy a Chevrolet'(which was quite unture:In France the prostitutes of the pen were just as badly rewarded as their colleagues on the street corners). — Arthur Koestler

"Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying. — Ilana Glazer

Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as evidence that God designed your mind to be so receptive to Him. Or, just maybe, you will come to acknowledge that, like the rest of us, you are a hopeless pawn in one of natural selection's most successful hoaxes ever-and smile at the sheer ingenuity involved in pulling it off, at the very thought of such mindless cleverness. One can still enjoy the illusion of God, after all, without believing Him to be real. — Jesse Bering

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. — Ernest Hemingway,

The majority is still at the General's disposal. — Jared Sparks

PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages. — M.J. Rose

Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue. — Laozi

He says that this world is part heaven and part hell, and that every second, inside of me and out, I'm standing at the convergence of the two, at the corner of damned and divine. — Josh James Riebock

I don't look like who I am. — Barbara Kingsolver

For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos? — Theresa Brown

Cats act with their eyes. They are the small, silent film actors of their time, and they are vastly underrated. — Jenny Lawson

An inability to be guided by a "healthy fear" of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw. — Daniel Kahneman

The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom! — Wilkie Collins

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach