Anastasio Alfaro Quotes & Sayings

I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us. — Steven Conrad

I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics. — Terence McKenna

Girls are the trickiest and most unpredictable creatures a fellow like me will ever talk to. — John Elder Robison

Life is full of those three." "Three?" "Woulda, shoulda, coulda. — Rachel Van Dyken

Bach-y-Rita developed a program for people with damaged facial motor nerves, who could not move their facial muscles and so couldn't close their eyes, speak properly, or express emotion, making them look like monstrous automatons. Bach-y-Rita had one of the "extra" nerves that normally goes to the tongue surgically attached to a patient's facial muscles. Then he developed a program of brain exercises to train the "tongue nerve" (and particularly the part of the brain that controls it) to act like a facial nerve. These patients learned to express normal facial emotions, speak, and close their eyes - one more instance of Bach-y-Rita's ability to "connect anything to anything. — Anonymous

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. — Hannah Arendt

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — Gerhard Richter

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. — Edward Hopper

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand. — Jules Verne

Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery. — Diana Abu-Jaber

It's just that I'm the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn't be a pin for me. — Elizabeth Strout

We couldn't be sure of anything except the power of love ... and we are under no requirement to believe in a particular source of that love as long as we could keep giving and receiving some in our own lives. — Elizabeth Kostova