Balieros Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you really want to say "Duh," but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess. — Adam Rex

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231) — Victor Hugo

My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to be coy, but it doesn't tickle my ego. — Joseph Brodsky

War's never a winning thing, Charlie. You just lose all the time, and the one who loses last asks for terms. All I remember is a lot of losing and sadness and nothing good but the end of it. The end of it, Charles, that was a winning all to itself, having nothing to do with guns. But I don't suppose that's the kind of victory you boys mean for me to talk on. — Ray Bradbury

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. — Clint Eastwood

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. — Benjamin Franklin

And strangely fold the hours as the end draws near. — Laini Taylor

I felt his voice. Fingers rubbing moss. Smoke curling. Wood worn and smoothed over time. His voice had darkness in it that hovered close to the ground, like a mist hanging over a lake deep in a forest at dusk. A bolt of sea-green velvet. A sensation as much as a series of sounds. It reverberated inside me. — M.J. Rose

Human mind is the most unpredictable machine in the world. Never could one draw a reason from it.
(Dr Abin. From Broken Fourth Wall) — Dr. Abin

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party. — Michael J. Fox

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler — Donald Knuth