Claror Maritim Quotes & Sayings

You deserve what you tollerate. — Ramon Colon-Lopez

You aren't learning anything when you're talking. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read. — David Starkey

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person. — Phillip Lim

The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists. — Marty Rubin

Do I still love this woman? he asked himself. He was in the habit of observing himself so closely that the answer came as a surprise to him: I do. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill. — Maxine Hong Kingston

So, these tools, like light switches, exist. When fear arises, remember that it is a hallucinated snake or that it's not useful or that it's not real. All three work. There's many more, ones we can come up with ourselves, if we wish. As long as it works, it's valid. Key is this, when in darkness, have a light switch you've chosen standing by. — Kamal Ravikant

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all. — Helen Dunmore

Bilbo of course ought to have been on his guard; but Smaug had rather an overwhelming personality. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Even technology adores a mother's love. — Sujit Meher

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it. — Idries Shah

With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints. As often as the driver rested them and brought them to a stand, with a wary "Wo-ho! so-ho- then!" the near leader violently shook his head and everything upon it - like an unusually emphatic horse, denying that the coach could be got up the hill. Whenever the leader made this rattle, the passenger started, as a nervous passenger might, and was disturbed in mind. — Charles Dickens

I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad. — Ruth Reichl