Calabazos Quotes & Sayings

The phrase comes to him before the emotion; but we must add that he is nevertheless a born writer, a man who detests meals, servants, ease, respectability or anything that gets between him and his art; who has kept his freedom when most of his contemporaries have long ago lost theirs; who is ashamed of nothing but being ashamed; who says whatever he has it in his mind to say, and has taught himself an accent, a cadence, indeed a language, for saying it in which, though they are not English, but Irish, will give him his place among the lesser immortals of our tongue. — Virginia Woolf

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here. — Jeff Abbott

If you are not able to find peace within yourself, no one will be able to bring you peace. — Debasish Mridha

I've thought it would be cool to have a baby young. You know, be my road dog - like my dogs, they travel the world - but there's always something you have to give up for success. Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it? — Serena Williams

CIf you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. — Dalai Lama XIV

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster. — Bill Parcells

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you. — Buddy Guy

Innocence is the highest gift one gives to the man with whom she will spend her life....her husband, and no other, is entitled to that gift. — Cheryl Ann Smith

Humanity is a comic role. — Novalis

I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks. — Alan Sillitoe

Those who earn your trust by surprise will leave surprisingly — M.F. Moonzajer