Cortejo Que Quotes & Sayings

An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague, no? After all, how do you actually have an entire city - or country, for that matter - be a character a reader can follow? One way is by making it smaller and personalizing it, by writing specifically about the citizens and the way they contend with the reality, even minutiae, especially minutiae, of their lives. — Said Sayrafiezadeh

This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players. — Ken Griffey Jr.

Be good to feel good and to attract good. — Debasish Mridha

If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long. — Salman Rushdie

The duty of the inn-keeper,is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, dirty
sheets, a servant, lice, and a smile; to stop passers-by, to empty small
purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling families
respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick the child
clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the chimney-corner,the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the feather-bed, the mattress
and the truss of straw; to know how much the shadow uses up the
mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five hundred thousand devils, to
make the traveller pay for everything, even for the flies which his dog
eats! — Victor Hugo

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display. — Nadeem Aslam

I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons. — Warren Spector

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it. — Timothy Zahn

That doesn't matter. How far from home you go means nothing. A person can run to the other side of the world but it doesn't mean shit if they're the same person when they get there as they were when they left. You might not have gone far from home but inside you've traveled a whole hell of a lot further than most people...farther than me. — Nyrae Dawn

I talk too much. — Alex Meraz