Convivio Cm Quotes & Sayings

When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging? — Douglas Coupland

Dad was more into last impressions than first ones, which makes his death all the more symbolic. — Cecelia Ahern

What happened to your foot?"
"I had a little disagreement with an eagle
stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers."
"Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully.
"He started it. — David Eddings

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life. -Peter of Blois (d. 1212). — Carter Lindberg

You interrogated a man at Hades's compound a year ago. I heard what you did to him. I can't have dead prisoners here; we have to be better than that." "I didn't kill him," I objected, remembering the murderous bastard who'd tried to kill Hades before he'd been caught. Unfortunately we hadn't stopped him from killing his own wife and children. "You took his hands. You know he killed himself in our jail?" "Yeah, well, I'm not going to kill anyone. Just talk. They wanted to kill me back in Southampton, now they want to take me to talk. I'd like to know why. And I heard your prisoner died by getting into a fight with another prisoner." "He walked up to a cave troll and kicked him. The troll tore his head off and threw it fifty feet away. What would you call that?" "Suicide by troll. That's new. — Steve McHugh

This soup tastes like windows — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas — H.L. Mencken

When you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone. — Tristan Prettyman

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary. — Robert Harris

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces. — Mahatma Gandhi

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. — Ridley Scott

I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell. — Darrell Calkins

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack. — Ray Manzarek

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. — Peter Porter