Carvalhos Cerquinhos Quotes & Sayings

Gargoyles sat on the battlements- lean they were and the same hideous damp grey as the stone. They looked at her with hollow eyes and rattled their silver chains. They had wings of bats or wings or birds, most of them, and licked their beaks or teeth with forked or double tongues. Two paced restlessly before their platforms; others whined or picked their claws or groomed their mangy fur or feathers or lizard skin or scales. — Meredith Ann Pierce

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. — Bill Gates

Karma is a tricky thing. To serve Karma, one must repay good Karma to others. To serve Karma well, one must sometimes deliver bad Karma where it is due. — M.R. Mathias

I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work. — Amy E. Spiegel

It's okay to be a freak. — Lisa Bonet

Quit counting time and start making time count — Zig Ziglar

No matter how cultured or ancient the civilization, no average American is going to condone the absence of flush toilets. Not now, not ever. — T.R. Fehrenbach

Books are portals for the imagination, whether one is reading or writing, and unless one is keeping a private journal, writing something that no one is likely to read is like trying to have a conversation when you're all alone. Readers extend and enhance the writer's created work, and they deepen the colors of it with their own imagination and life experiences. In a sense, there's a revision every time one's words are read by someone else, just as surely as there is whenever the writer edits. Nothing is finished or completely dead until both sides quit and it's no longer a part of anyone's thoughts. So it seems almost natural that a lifelong avid reader occasionally wants to construct a mindscape from scratch after wandering happily in those constructed by others. If writing is a collaborative communication between author and reader, then surely there's a time and a place other than writing reviews for readers to 'speak' in the human literary conversation. — P.J. O'Brien

But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom. — Orson Scott Card

Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions. — Dee Dee Artner

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world. — Andy Warhol