Broncas En Quotes & Sayings

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. — Jean Baudrillard

it's a myth, you know;
he doesn't have to draw blood
for him to leave a scar. — Angeli Cabal

A. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it. — Cynthia Ozick

Death looked up angirly, and found himself staring into eyes that were black as the inside of a cat and full of distant stars that had no counterpart among the familiar constellations of the realtime universe. — Terry Pratchett

After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter. — Allan Gurganus

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day. — Norbert Wiener

As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive" in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it frequently seems in the mountains, is more intensely lived the closer one gets to its extinction: we never feel so alive as when we have nearly died. — Robert Macfarlane

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it. — Martin Luther

If the apple hit Newton's nose, Newton's nose hit the apple. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'd love to build a brand, a legacy. — Ryan Holmes

Children of Maeve reproducing with children of Titania wasn't like apples mixing with oranges - it was more like apples mixing with cheese graters, or rainbows with hardware stores. — Seanan McGuire