Contratiempo En Quotes & Sayings

The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history ... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel ... — Jose Emilio Pacheco

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's. — Chris Hadfield

You are not defined by your possessions, looks, or popularity. You are made in God's image. — LeCrae

The Strip was still lit by a million neon lights, though the crowds on the sidewalk had greatly decreased by this hour. Still, Bosch was awed by the spectacle of light. In every imaginable color and configuration, it was a megawatt funnel of enticement to greed that burned twenty-four hours a day. Bosch felt the same attraction that all the other grinders felt tug at them. Las Vegas was like one of the hookers on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Even happily married men at least glanced their way, if only for a second, just to get an idea what was out there, maybe give them something to think about. Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town. — Michael Connelly

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over. — Edgar Cayce

When I was a Poet
Everything was Possible
there wasn't Anything
that wasn't Poetry — David Meltzer

Your circumstances do not define you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake. — Benito Mussolini

A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about him. — J.I. Packer

There was always an outrageousness to our response to minor events. Flamboyance and exaggeration were the tail feathers, the jaunty plumage that stretched and flared whenever a Wingo found himself eclipsed in the lampshine of a hostile world. As a family, we were instinctive, not thoughtful. We could never outsmart our adversaries but we could always surprise them with the imaginativeness of our reactions. We functioned best as connoisseurs of hazard and endangerment. We were not truly happy unless we were engaged in our own private war with the rest of the world. Even in my sister's poems, one could always feel the tension of approaching risk. Her poems all sounded as though she had composed them of thin ice and falling rock. They possessed movement, weight, dazzle and craft. Her poetry moved through streams of time, wild and rambunctious, like an old man entering the boundary waters of the Savannah River, planning to water-ski forty miles to prove he was still a man. — Pat Conroy

I want to do an album with Steven Seagal. — Action Bronson

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it. — Iyanla Vanzant

I didn't think American Pie was going to be what it was! I had a very small role and the reception I received was just crazy. — Jennifer Coolidge

women is the most powerful weapon in the world — Various

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people. — Marc Andreessen