Aristipo Libros Quotes & Sayings

A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording. — Jonathan Lethem

One should never know too precisely whom one has married — Friedrich Nietzsche

The coat adds +5 to all armor rolls — Joe Hill

Why do you have a gun in your suitcase? — Elizabeth Horton-Newton

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line. — Jean Shepherd

Killing a Jew was an insignificant, legitimate, authorized, and encouraged act that conformed with the directives of the Reich. Protecting a Jew led to capital punishment. — Patrick Desbois

It was if he'd kissed her awake. — Alayna Williams

Sitting still as a way of falling in love with the world and everything in it; — Pico Iyer

For much of our lives, we live in the shallows. Then something happens - a crisis, a birth, a death - and we get this glimpse of tremendous depth. My soul becomes shallow when my interests and thoughts go no further than myself. A person should be deep because life itself is deep. — John Ortberg

Hope is the supernatural grace of God for
survival of hard times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of. — Charlie Kelly

[I]t is almost impossible to talk about space without gesturing. Gesture is spontaneous, and is integral to individual expression as it is to communication. Even though you probably won't gesture as much if you are talking on the phone, you will still wave your arms about. Blind people gesture when they speak in the same way that seeing people do. — Christine Kenneally

My undercarriage is a national treasure. — Gina Damico

As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit
subliterature. — Ursula K. Le Guin

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want. — Steve Hackett