Arcos Y Quotes & Sayings

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. — Rem Koolhaas

Ghosts are just pieces of memory. They haunt us because we don't want to forget. We are the ghost makers. We take fragments of the dead and project them onto shadows and sounds, trying to make sense of loss by assigning it a new shape. Ghosts aren't real. — Carrie Arcos

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off. — Ross Kemp

I like mornings because each day is like another chance. — Carrie Arcos

Safe places exist only where people aren't. — Carrie Arcos

Later, when they would spend straight hours conversing in the dark, Jane would realize that Henry kissed the way he talked- his entire attention taut, focused, intensely hers. — Shannon Hale

I'll look out for my little brother's girlfriend and keep her nice and safe in the light of day and not violate the fuck out of her in the dark. — Penelope Douglas

If the hill has its own name, then it's probably a pretty tough hill. — Marty Stern

Words stick, even when we don't want them to. — Carrie Arcos

There was a loophole in the law that said if I was working, I could be in the clubs as long as I didn't drink alcohol and had someone with me. — TyDi

A priest is an enemy of society disguised as a sheep."

Mother laughed.

"No, professor!" burst out Antonio. "Maybe they dressed up as sheep in your day. Now, they don't even bother anymore."

"You're right about that, young man. In my time, they were killers. Today, they can't kill anymore, so they terrorize people and inform on them instead. It comes to the same thing. — Agustin Gomez-Arcos

People usually do something to have someone come after them. — Carrie Arcos

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it. — Evan Esar

It's impossible to keep someone safe. — Carrie Arcos

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself, — Julian Bond

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this. — Salman Rushdie

We try to explain how we feel, but there aren't always the right words or the words we have fail. But with music, you can hear a piece and say, Yeah, that's it. That's exactly how I feel. — Carrie Arcos

The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can't be taken back. It sucks all the air from you until you give up and it takes over and you forget how to breathe on your own. It is like those parasitic relationships, but not like the shark and the little remora that politely cleans the shark's skin and sometimes attaches itself to its underbelly. No, it is more like a tapeworm eating someone from the inside out. — Carrie Arcos

The truth is? Everyone lies. Every single person. — Carrie Arcos

But a living is not a life. — Robin Hobb

Let convulsions shake the solid earth, let the skies themselves be rent in twain, yet amid the wreck of worlds the believer shall be as secure as in the calmest hour of rest. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out. — Agustin Gomez-Arcos

The first time my mom told me liars didn't go to heaven was when she tried to get me to confess to hitting my eight-year-old brother. I was seven. — Carrie Arcos

A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. — Lydia M. Child

It's terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it's like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it's almost like men can have three films in a row that don't do that well and keep on going. — Julie Delpy