Calvache Ancestors Quotes & Sayings

I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough. — Michael Dorris

Bureaucratic categories and organizational boxes do more than simply separate relevant from irrelevant information. They also produce the social optics that policymakers and bureaucrats use to see the world. Before policymakers can act, they first must come to create a definition and understanding of the situation, and that understanding is mediated by how the institution is organized to think. ...How organizations categorize and carve up the world has a profound impact on how policymakers see the world. — Michael Barnett

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine. — Emily Blunt

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. — Joss Stone

What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your days. What doesn't kill you can make you scared to leave your house, or even your bedroom, and have you trembling, or mumbling incoherently, or leaning with your head on a window pane, wishing you could return to the time before the thing that didn't kill you. — Matt Haig

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool. — Jane Gardam

I am beholden to my own peculiar irony: to survive I self-destruct. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

A bottle of vodka costs as much as a coat used to. And something to snack on? Half a kilo of salami is half a month's pension. — Svetlana Alexievich

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg! — Mark Kingwell

He was funny, smart, charming...and a monumental slut. Dean had all the makings of a man-sized Venus Flytrap. -Lex — Staci Hart

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly. — Patrick Monahan