Cisco Houston Quotes & Sayings

The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it. — Tahir Shah

Q sucked in a breath, his face darkening as he rubbed the front of his trousers. Goddammit, do you have to be so fucking tempting? — Pepper Winters

Your Texas is no different than my Texas. — Pat Mora

The truth was, if I was perfect, it was only because of her. It would only ever be because of her. — J. Lynn

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there? — Arthur Schnitzler

Love the Problem, Not the Solution. — Ash Maurya

But, my son. I knew love here as well. — Miyuki Miyabe

We are all afraid of something. But that shouldn't stop us from going on every day. We should not always walk in fear of the shadow while we are in the light. It is certain we will not know when or how the difficult and bad times will come, but if we accept that they will come, then they are easier to face when they do. And always remember that anything that causes the shadow is smaller than the source of light. — Joseph M. Marshall III

If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world. — Joanna Garcia

No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle — Ayn Rand

Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods. — Johnny Carson

In your mid-30s, it's time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise — Tom Hanks

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so. — Tony Benn

Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like ... I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [ ... ] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading. — Tim O'Brien

He did not know how to make her understand that he would be happy, most happy, to become her husband in his turn. He certainly could not tell her that, now, at this moment, in this place, in the presence of this corpse; nevertheless he could, he believed, find one of those ambiguous, acceptable, complicated statements whose words have hidden significance, and which can, by their calculated reservations, express everything you intend. — Guy De Maupassant