Clavadas De Basket Quotes & Sayings

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint. — Henry David Thoreau

There is a secret that the casinos possess, a secret they hold and guard and prize, the holiest of their mysteries. For most people do not gamble to win money, after all, although that is what is advertised, sold, claimed, and dreamed. But that is merely the easy lie that gets them through the enormous, ever-open, welcoming doors.
The secret is this: people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They may brag about the nights they won, the money they took from the casino, but they treasure, secretly treasure, the times they lost. It's a sacrifice, of sorts. — Neil Gaiman

The constant bombardment and the randomness with which death scythed us down had exhausted us... — Carsten Jensen

Christian allegories are a dime a dozen. You can find them in any story, if you look hard enough. Even Harry Potter. — Jason Krumbine

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality. — Michael Adam Hamilton

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life. — Giacomo Casanova

Nothing is given so profusely as advice. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

With Pauline at my side, in one swift act that could never be undone, an act that ended a thousand dreams but gave birth to one, I bolted for the cover of the forest and never looked back. Lest we repeat history, the stories shall be passed from father to son, from mother to daughter, for with but one generation, history and truth are lost forever. - Morrighan Book of Holy Text, Vol. III — Mary E. Pearson

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream. — Charlotte Rampling

In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free. — Douglas Coupland

When you in de right you heart strong you no 'fraid nottin'. — Barry Unsworth

It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's
concerns or the poet's truthfulness. — Seamus Heaney

I'm not Lois Lane and you are neither Superman nor Clark Kent," she fired back. "It's crazy for you to go anywhere in this condition, and if you had the sense God gave a rock, you'd stay put."
Gabe stopped in his tracks. "Did you just compare me to a rock?"
She snorted. "I have the utmost respect for rocks. They're hard, they're heavy. They make good paperweights. — Cindy Gerard