Cantinero Tequila Quotes & Sayings

Let me be candid. If I had to rank book-acquisition experiences in order of comfort, ease, and satisfaction, the list would go like this: 1. The perfect independent bookstore, like Pygmalion in Berkeley. 2. A big, bright Barnes & Noble. I know they're corporate, but let's face it - those stores are nice. Especially the ones with big couches. 3. The book aisle at Walmart. (It's next to the potting soil.) 4. The lending library aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia, a nuclear submarine deep beneath the surface of the Pacific. 5. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. — Robin Sloan

Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity. — Vladimir Potanin

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings. — Carmen Boullosa

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart. — George Eliot

The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others. — Frederick Romilly

I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs ... well, so be it. — Carol Emshwiller

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath. — David Platt

You used to have the jokes about never fixing the roof until it rained. People were undoubtedly the same now, or worse. They might well wait until something happened that forced them to act; that something would almost certainly be unpleasant - most likely, serious. Yet — George R. Stewart

My parents, worried that I might become popular at school, got me a book of puns at an impressionable age. — Alexandra Petri