Comerio Puerto Quotes & Sayings

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. — David Antin

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying. — Coleman Hawkins

Whenever I try to do something, I figure out what other people aren't doing or how can I do it different or how can I stand out. — Clinton Sparks

Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds. — Roger Tory Peterson

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day. — Elvis Presley

If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to have bad reasoning skills. The reality is that reason is just one of the drivers of our decisions, and often the smallest one. Recently — Scott Adams

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. — Allan Gurganus

Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being compelled by some more imperative duty, or justified by allowable self-preference, is a subject of moral disapprobation for that failure, but not for the cause of it, nor for the errors, merely personal to himself, which may have remotely led to it. In like manner, when a person disables himself, by conduct purely self-regarding, from the performance of some definite duty incumbent on him to the public, he is guilty of a social offence. No person ought to be punished simply for being drunk; but a soldier or a policeman should be punished for being drunk on duty. — John Stuart Mill

As the invasion fleet sailed east across the Mediterranean, Napoleon would lie in bed reading and dictating to Bourrienne. His principal reading was from the Koran. Like Alexander the Great before him, he intended to absorb the religion of the people over whom he would rule. He insisted that, if necessary, he himself was willing to become a Muslim - an intention that, at least initially, he would show every sign of wishing to fulfill. However, it should also be noted that in Napoleon's shipboard library the Koran was shelved under "Politics." At the same time, he also busied himself with dictating his "proclamation" to the Egyptian people. — Paul Strathern

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone. — Don DeLillo

Bitterness is a broken spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's human; we all put self interest first. — Euripides