Bienvenido Quotes & Sayings

I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke
bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple — Steve Jobs

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up. — Norah Jones

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value. — Kate Klise

Knowing the limitations of the native syllabry as a literary medium, the student cannot accept without qualification the usual explanation that the friars destroyed the relics of paganism among their converts, or that the literature was recorded on highly perishable materials which disintegrated before scholars could get a hold of them — Bienvenido L. Lumbera

Death is the perfect knowing. — Marjorie Holmes

Bett didn't have any siblings because she said her father had preserved what was dead for too long to be able to create life. When Bet was younger and had begged for one, her father gave her a marmot he' stuffed for a man from Wyoming.
"This is your brother Christopher," he'd said, placing the marmot on Bett's pillow one night. "He doesn't talk much, so you'll have to pick up the slack there. — Rebecca Rasmussen

Modesty belongs to losers. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Brabantio: "You are a villain!"
Iago: "You are a senator! — William Shakespeare

The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience. — Bienvenido Lumbera

My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions. — Charles Stross

People looked at me, shocked.
I gave them a nice big smile. That's right, look what big teeth I have. I knew I was a vegetarian, but aside from Jim and a few friends, nobody else did. Besides, just because I didn't eat meat, didn't mean I wouldn't bite. — Ilona Andrews

How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator? — John Milton