Calura Texture Quotes & Sayings

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture. — Isabel Allende

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave. — John Conyers

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years. — Jill Sobule

Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism — Charmaine Smith Ladd

But this girl, she lived in a bubble, and seeing her out at a frat party was like spotting a unicorn. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Nothing cheap without reason. — Idries Shah

People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it. — Jim Butcher

Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best. — Albert Hadley

She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night. — Thomas Pynchon

Even if I give myself over to the madness-or prejudice-here and now, even if doing so destroys me, even if this world vanishes in its entirety, what do I have to lose? — Haruki Murakami

On being invited to the Jaipur Festival, I was naturally nervous about attempting an opening address to such an elite gathering. — Amartya Sen

As soon as a still-to-be-finished computer task becomes a life-or-death situation the power fails. — Andre Hoffmann

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. — Ruth Benedict