Ansias Spanish Quotes & Sayings

The pain of living and the drug of dreams
curl up the small soul in the window seat. — T. S. Eliot

The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore. — Tom Petty

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally. — Drew Gilpin Faust

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there. — Elizabeth Bowen

by the FCC's own reckoning, the cable companies will soon enjoy an uncontested monopoly over broadband Internet in much of the United States beyond the East Coast, and they are also seeking control of more Hollywood studios and television networks. — Tim Wu

By this time I was in a state of excitement bordering on insanity; but I also had the cunning of the insane. — Vladimir Nabokov

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all. — Jason Isbell

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. — Alexander Smith

When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things. — Karl Ove Knausgard

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied. — Mason Cooley

If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a boy from the hood making records for the people I make records for, that's reality. — Master P

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion. — Isabella Beeton