Cecilias Tortilla Quotes & Sayings

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture. — Tim Chester

The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab. — Bernard L. Schwartz

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested. — Jason Gann

Helen

All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.

All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past enchantments
and past ills.

Greece sees, unmoved,
God's daughter, born of love,
the beauty of cool feet
and slenderest knees,
could love indeed the maid,
only if she were laid,
white ash amid funereal cypresses. — H.D.

To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I began to get ideas for young adult novels and juvenile books. — Cynthia Voigt

Both men felt uncomfortable. Each knew the other understood him. That kind of knowledge is agreeable for friends, and for enemies very disagreeable, especially when they can't either have it out or separate. — Ivan Turgenev

God, I hate judgmental people. They're so mean ... and fat. — John Raptor

Violence is never random. — Mary Summer Rain

Relationship films are political. If a woman is sitting in a waiting room in an office and a man walks in and sits down, it's a political situation. If he decides to smoke, does he ask her or does he just light up? If he lights up, what does she do? It's politics. — Sydney Pollack

It's funny how you can hear only a few cords from a song and it'll transport you back in time to a particular person or place. — Janelle Smith Toussant

To preserve the past is to save the future... — Nanette L. Avery

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event. — Nicole Richie