Cacophonies Quotes & Sayings

When a man could no longer pay his debts, the soldiers would seize the tabletop he would be using to display his wares (banco) and break it (rotta). Hence, bankruptcy. — Jodi Taylor

Over-all, we probably would have retained better prospects for the next five years if profits had not risen so dramatically this year. — Warren Buffett

I think I feel my best - I really feel the fountain of youth is inside, not out - when I'm just surrounded with love, when I'm with my family and we're all having a wonderful time together. There's nothing greater than your family surrounding you. — Jaclyn Smith

My characters still talk the way normal people talk. They argue, they are sarcastic with each other, they joke around. I usually end up with one outrageous minor character in each book that people just rave about. We all have that one friend who says and does things that are a riot. A character like that is the salt in the soup: you want just enough to bring everything to life. — Dan Alatorre

This much is already known: for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences. (I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with that of finding a meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's palm ... They admit that the inventors of this writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but maintain that this application is accidental and that the books signify nothing in themselves. This dictum, we shall see, is not entirely fallacious.) — Jorge Luis Borges

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink. — Steve Jordan

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want. — Daren Kagasoff

It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not. — Harrison Ford

Find a balance between head and heart. — Colleen Hoover

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. — Richard Avedon

Everything is lit with glowing chandeliers and copious candles, so that the light is not bright but deep and warm and bubbling. — Erin Morgenstern

He was absolutely, on this occasion, a living, detestable, dangerous presence. — Henry James

You got to get it while you can — Janis Joplin

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins