Basilisa Virella Quotes & Sayings

They say that democracy cannot be adopted; it has to be adapted to the African way of thinking. What does that mean? That the all-powerful and corrupt political leaders should stay in power? That Teodoro Obiang, the President of Equatorial Guinea, should appropriate all the country's money for himself, a country with income per capita of more than 20,000 euros thanks to oil but where people suffer hunger and poverty? Or that women should not have any rights? — Fernando Ballano Gonzalo

A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, "This is it. I'll never get back in again." And they maybe meant it, but they probably got back in again anyway. — Peter Lynch

I find this miraculous. I never cease to wonder at it. That words are more durable than anything ... — Penelope Lively

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true. — James Dyson

As a teenager, I used to travel everywhere with my guitar. I appreciated the fact it was with me, but it was always an absolute pain to carry around - even though, in those days, you could take in on a plane as hand luggage. — Greg Wise

Person describes himself throughout life. To know oneself perfectly means to die. — Albert Camus

What a number of things a river does, by simply following Gravity in the innocence of its heart! — Robert Louis Stevenson