Bela Padilla Quotes & Sayings

I suppose I've never set out to write a novel in which nothing happens ... only to write a novel about the lives of certain characters. That nothing 'happens' in their lives is beside the point to me; I'm still interested in how they live, and think, and speak, and make some sense of their own experience. Incident (in novels and in life) is momentary, and temporary, but the memory of an incident, the story told about it, the meaning it takes on or loses over time, is lifelong and fluid, and that's what interests me and what I hope will prove interesting to readers. We're deluged with stories of things that have happened, events, circumstances, actions, etc. We need some stories that reveal how we think and feel and hope and dream. — Alice McDermott

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway. — Gabrielle Zevin

If my love can hold you, I'll keep you with me. — Lisa Kleypas

Never take the position that things just happen to you; rather, they happen because of something you did or did not do. — Grant Cardone

The atonement is designed by God to restore cracked Eikons into glory-producing Eikons by participation in the perfect Eikon, Jesus Chirst, who redeems the cosmos. To be an Eikon, then, is to be charged with a theocentric and missional life. Prior to the fall, Adam and Eve did what they were supposed to do: they "eikoned." And cracked Eikons are being restored so that they can eikon now and so that they will eikon forever. — Scot McKnight

Scowling, Scarlet grabbed her aunt by the neck and twisted with one brutal slash. The woman's spine was instantly broken, her body flopping lifeless to the ground. But she could recover from that, and Scarlet had to know. Gideon opened his mouth to tell her she would have to find a way to remove the head from the body, but she beat him to it. She found a way. With her bare hands. That's my girl. "That won't kill her for good, will it?" he asked Cronus, just wanting assurance. Worked for immortals, but he'd never delivered the deathblow to a straight-up god or goddess. "Time will tell," Cronus replied cryptically. Gideon would just go ahead and take that as "bitch was wasted forever." Panting — Gena Showalter

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. — Sophocles

I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future. — Javier Solana

He was alive and wished that he was dead, but not being dead, he was scared that he might die. — Avi

The incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios. — Derek Bailey

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me. — Federico Fellini