Chitans Quotes & Sayings

We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted. — Wynton Marsalis

It's the reason we say "pork" and "beef" instead of "pig" and "cow." Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set of illusions and denial. — Mary Roach

the result is what people live with, not the cause. — Garth Stein

Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment. — Brock Yates

Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes. — Alan Cumming

Coming up with goals, updating them, and monitoring our progress in achieving them is less important, I believe, than the process of emotionally deciding what it is you want to do. — Keith Ferrazzi

Troy's girlfriend, Sandra, brought them all pizza that night, and when she got there she joined the dramatic re-enactment. She said they had to rewind so she could elaborate for Elena on how dashing Obi-Wan was. "Ewan McGregor," she groaned. "I made Troy grow a beard after the second movie."
"I also grew a Padawan braid," Troy said. — Rainbow Rowell

Magic is desire made real. — Deborah Harkness

Sir Ector looked into the fire, fidgeting with something in his pocket.
"I have something for you," he said at last. "It was your mother's." And he drew out the thing in his pocket and held it up to her.
The ring Blanche took from him was antique silver, cabochon-set with a glimmering moonstone. Her mother's ring! Blanche folded it into her hand and held tightly to the only thing her parents had left her. — Suzannah Rowntree

The artist is the world's scapegoat. — Jacob Epstein

We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter days and are closer to the Second Coming than when the Savior lived his mortal life in the meridian of time. — Joseph B. Wirthlin