Cambistas Quotes & Sayings

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write? — Ann Patchett

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete. — Shawn Johnson

With time, scars turn into wisdom. — Shilpa Menon

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic. — Victor Serge

I can't tell people what flag to fly. — Lesley Stahl

Let your soul bloom like a flower with the beauty and fragrance of divine love. — Debasish Mridha

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire. — Omar Khayyam

My biggest dream was to ruin the lives of my readers and crush their souls ... And I really think that worked out pretty well for me. — George R R Martin

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. — Steve Maraboli

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock. — Sandor Marai

like every major shift in history, there will be those who find it difficult to deal with the changes," Winkler observed. "It's like a rising tide. The water comes in and then recedes. Floods in again and recedes. But each time, it rises a little higher. We have to keep our eyes on the place that marks our highest goal and refuse to let the receding waves drag us away from it. — Connie Suttle

And I'm not horrified. I look at it, indulging in the darkness around me, feeding me, strengthening me, and I realize that I'm happy I killed him. Truly happy. — Marie Lu

I've never said I'm a communist. — John Lydon

Beware of men who name their products with the initials of their own character. — Mel Croucher

The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.
It melts the frost that binds her lips.
It melts the sea in her eyesss.
(from uncorrected galley) — Katherine Catmull