Burgundian Carol Quotes & Sayings

I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds. — Alan Lightman

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him. — Henry David Thoreau

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States. — Donald Trump

Life is a void, an emptiness; it began with nothing and ends with nothing. — Debasish Mridha

I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience. — Jeffrey Lewis

You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want. — Deb Olin Unferth

Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles. — Benjamin Franklin

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything. — Richard Linklater

Commitment eats impossible for breakfast. — Honoree Corder

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal — Edgar Allan Poe

Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs. — John Gray

As above, so below. As within, so without. - The Emerald Tablet, circa 3000 BC — Rhonda Byrne

How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing! — S. Truett Cathy

She stood there, rooted to the spot, until he murmured, "Relax, this is all part of our cover."
His words were like ice water right in the face. He'd just kissed her as part of their cover. That brief brush over her lips and she didn't want to relax, she wanted to take all his clothes off. Peel that charcoal gray suit off him and kiss every inch of his ripped, naked body.
Instead of indulging in that insanity and getting arrested for public indecency - and tearing open old wounds - she took a small step back. Just like that, she could breathe again. — Katie Reus