Barroca Colonial Quotes & Sayings

People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do. — Elmore Leonard

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job. — Richard MacDonald

You're insecure and need a blanket like Linus. — King Sun

Childhood is a wilderness. — Aspen Matis

Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable. — Gilbert Ryle

Things from real life are the things that get people laughing. — Bill Cosby

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent! — Ira Carmen

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all. — Stephen King

What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian? — Ron Paul

I run the largest survey company in the world. It just so happens to be the second-largest company run by someone in my house. — Dave Goldberg

If only one had time to think! — William Golding

As an American I must say I haven't been very encouraged by the way in which the people who run the government in the United States have been listening to those contrary voices. And so long as the power to run the world lies in the hands of people who are quite happy to see it get warmer, or fuel be used more, then would those people who oppose it are crying in the wilderness - that's the real problem. — Richard Lewontin

It's almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these. — Marilyn Johnson

refugees fleeing a fire. — Rick Riordan