Conductas Quotes & Sayings

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. — Jackie Chan

All evil here. Monsters. Little monsters and then big ones. — Sabaa Tahir

Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people. — Patch Adams

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity. — Ciara

I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news. — Oprah Winfrey

W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer. — Gerald Vizenor

It had never occurred to me, though when you read the bible it is perfectly plain if you pay attention only to the words. It is the pictures in the bible that fool you. The pictures that illustrate the words. All of the people are white and so you just think all the people from the bible were white too. But really white white people lived somewhere else during those times. That's why the bible says that Jesus Christ had hair like lamb's wool. Lamb's wool is not straight, Celie. It isn't even curly. — Alice Walker

He muttered to himself. Why bother. Why does this matter so much. What difference does it make to anything if I solve this blue and just start again. I could just sit down and drink wine. I could go and be useful in a cholera-camp in Columbia or Ethiopia. Why bother to render the transparency in solid paint or air on a bit of board? I could just stop. He could not. — A.S. Byatt

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through. — Sara Zarr

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well. — Anthony Bourdain

An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do. — Russell Hoban

It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive? — Frances Mayes