Complicidad Vanesa Quotes & Sayings

That evening, after Romer had left so peremptorily, she had gone through to the salon to talk to her father. A job for the British government, she told him. £500 a year, a British passport. He feigned surprise but it was obvious that Romer had briefed him to a certain extent.
'You'd be a British citizen, with a passport,' her father said, his features incredulous, almost abjectly so - as if it were unthinkable that a nonentity such as he should have a daughter who was a British citizen. 'Do you know what I would give to be a British citizen?' he said, all the while with his left hand miming a sawing motion at his right elbow. — William Boyd

It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing. — Karen Russell

Wherever nauseated time has dropped a nice fat turd you will find our patriots, sniffing it up on all fours, their faces on fire. — Samuel Beckett

flight's next stopover, La Paz, a little — George Jehn

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. — Jennifer Weiner

We have to have positive male role models. — Donald Miller

According to my figures I've only had 2500 pieces of ass but I've watched 12500 horse races, and if I have any advice to anybody, it's this: take up watercolor painting. — Charles Bukowski

But I do know that everything happens for a purpose. These things, they make us stronger, emotionally. And when we have a God to run to that loves us, it helps spiritually. The bible says that Jesus is our comforter and our helper. The memories of our past will always be there, but with Jesus on our side, your past won't hold you down. And right now, your past is keeping you down. — Vickie Valladares

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end. — Blaise Pascal

Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body. — Poppet

Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know. — Clare Balding

Just knock off the horns and hair, and toss it on the coals for about thirty seconds on each side. I like mine still kicking and quivering! -Wichita talking about steak — Ray Palla

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training. — Nido R. Qubein