Chicote Quotes & Sayings

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'. — Ed Begley Jr.

I find three basic characteristics that fundamentally distinguish the novel in principle from other genres: (i) its stylistic three-dimensionality, which is linked with the multi-languaged consciousness realized in the novel; (2) the radical change it effects in the temporal coordinates of the literary image; (3) the new zone opened by the novel for structuring literary images, namely, the zone of maximal contact with the present (with contemporary reality) in all its openendedness.
These three characteristics of the novel are all organically interrelated and have all been powerfully affected by a very specific rupture in the history of European civilization: its emergence from a socially isolated and culturally deaf semipatriarchal society, and its entrance into international and interlingual contacts and relationships. — Mikhail Bakhtin

I'm not a big traveller. — Patrick Chan

I shall always think of myself first and foremost ... as a hunter. — Abraham Lincoln

Intuition is a walkie-talkie between the personality an the soul. — Gary Zukav

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it! — Paul Strand

Every beginning is a new challenge. I welcome the challenges — Mohammed Sekouty

Sometimes the hearts we steal are not the hearts we were ever meant to keep. — Laura Miller

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S. — Emily Mortimer

No matter how good you are at something there's always about a million people better than you. — Matt Groening

You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt. — Paula McLain

The Holy Spirit is in charge here.
We should write it for all to see on the lintels of every doorway we build. But since that might seem like so many words, we will do better: we will write it in our lives. And in all the lives we can reach out to and touch and inspire with the living Spirit of God. — David Wilkerson