Caminata Quotes & Sayings

People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody. — Chuck Klosterman

this window here, a boy once yelled, Watch — Anthony Doerr

There's a fleeting moment that exists for every individual just before they do something truly life-altering. Its that flash of insight and sanity that stalls your heartbeat and bloo flow - a quick warning - just before you explode and make a fool of yourself. Or that incredible brief instant of clarity you have before you floor the gas pedal and run the red light. It's a split second of self admonishment in which you realise that what you're about to do is wrong, but just as quickly choose to ignore that realisation and do it anyway. It's too fast to catch, too bright to see, utterly gone even before you've blinked and therefore, it does a person absolutely no good at all. And yet, there it is. — Heather Killough-Walden

People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you? — Frederick Lenz

The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity. — Simone Weil

One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid. — Steve Pavlina

My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule. — James Ensor

You you think you need to forgive someone ... you got it all wrong. — Vivian Amis

I'm not like that fellow who thought it a far, far better thing to trade his life for that of another. I'm nothing like him: I'd never volunteer to lay my head in the lap of Madame la Guillotine. No, that fellow was a hero and I'm not a hero at all. — Franny Billingsley

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game. — Don Shula

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. — Sylvia Plath

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. — Edwin Edwards