Canta Nova Quotes & Sayings

Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. It — Margaret Atwood

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you. — B.B. King

Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer. — Nicole Krauss

I do want people to feel sorry for me. I do.
And then I don't.
I do.
And then I don't. — E. Lockhart

I love to be casual and comfortable, but I also love the easy glamour of wearing jewelry all the time. — Elizabeth Taylor

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned — Frank Herbert

Life does not get better so long as we avoid the pain that spurs us to evolve. We do not develop emotionally, because we block out our feelings rather than bear them. We cannot become fluent in intimacy, because we keep ourselves hidden. We do not become confident, because we duck challenges rather than do the kind of work that instills self-worth. There are no shortcuts to life's bounty. — Wendy Lustbader

If the theater is the refuge of the conversationalist whose friend is mute and whose mistress is insipid, then conversation, even the most exquisite, is the pleasure of men without imagination. — Marcel Proust

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension. — Ladislav Sutnar

BRANDON: How about caramel popcorn balls? Yummy too! NIKKI: Popcorn balls?! Are you kidding me? Sounds way too complicated! BRANDON: Nope. Super EZ! Even I can make them and I'm a cruddy cook. I made some last night. NIKKI: — Rachel Renee Russell