Centimetros Para Quotes & Sayings

I am a wordy writer, and often churn out pages on end without advancing the plot a jot. Hence I try to take my cue from a childhood impatience with any device that doesn't get somewhere. Even in his sprightly youth, Clippity had a problem with running in place - just like my first drafts - when the surface was too slick. As a kid, I was ingenious enough to smear green Plasticine on his rear hooves. Thus I discovered the importance of traction, as handy a concept in literature as for wind-up toys. — Lionel Shriver

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees. — Stephen Hawking

From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die. — George Sheehan

Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to. — Becca Fitzpatrick

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre. — Peter Gallagher

You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up. — Fuzzy Zoeller

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence. — Guillermo Del Toro

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful. — C.S. Lewis

As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are. — Pico Iyer

Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception. — James Richardson