Cecilia Balagot Quotes & Sayings

Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively. — David Liss

Snippets from here and there - she's old, she tends to digress — Kavita Kane

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish. — Mili Avital

That evening, Hope wrote a letter to her MP, Jack Crow. She found no difficulty at all in composing it, but quite a bit in writing it. She hadn't hand-written an entire page since primary school. In the end she found an app on her glasses that sampled her handwriting and turned it into a font that looked like her handwriting would if it had been regular, and printed it off. There was even an app for the printer that indented the paper a little, and an ink that looked like ballpoint ink. — Ken MacLeod

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? — Mervyn Peake

I feel as if I've never been touched before. — Nicola Yoon

I always feel like every film takes the franchise and hangs it in the balance. — Lauren Shuler Donner

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. — Susan Sontag

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important. — Carl Reiner

A tranquil mind, a truth-filled speech, and a body dedicated to service-one who has these three qualities is described as the embodiment of 'Triputi' (the Triple purity). Such a one is the noblest of human beings. — Sathya Sai Baba

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity. — James Gleick

I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed. — Home Run Baker

Unless I love something or hate it, I don't want to deal with it. — James Caan