Cabelo Curto Quotes & Sayings

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. — Iris Chang

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. — Jess Row

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. — Aldous Huxley

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters. — Patti Scialfa

Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu. — Masaaki Hatsumi

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces that save us from idolatry. The more we listen to ourselves, the more we create God in our own image until God becomes a tawdry idol that looks and speaks like us. The power of the commandments is found not in the writings of theologians, although I read and admire some, but in the pathos of human life, including lives that are very unlike our own. All states and nations work to pervert religions into civic religions, ones where the goals of the state become the goals of the divine. This is increasingly true in the United States. But once we believe we understand the will of God and can act as agents of God we become dangerous, a menace to others and a menace to ourselves. We forget that we do not understand. We forget to listen. — Chris Hedges

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. — Walter Mosley

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation. — Gautama Buddha

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings
artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers
to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption. — Tom Robbins

You have to change your environment to serve your purpose. — Ehab Atalla