Corvina Quotes & Sayings

It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway. — Rob Payne

I'm a very collaborative person, so that's not the way I work any way. Once VW got over the idea that I was going to blow their cars up, then we shot the thing really fast and it came out really good. Like I said, it won a bunch of awards and that really was the start of working in commercials. — Paul W. S. Anderson

The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers. — Lu Xun

It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin. — Kate Cary

The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls. — Jason Gedrick

Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination. — Max Euwe

It is my last wish to be burried sitting up. — Bette Davis

In this world, it is not possible to forget about obligation of these three people: father, mother and guru; the one who has made us walk on the correct path. — Dada Bhagwan

Corvina's got it wrong. Penumbra's schemes didn't fail because he's a hopeless crackpot. If Corvina's right, it means nobody should ever try anything new and risky. Maybe Penumbra's schemes failed because he didn't have enough help. Maybe he didn't have a Mat or a Neel, an Ashley or a Kat - until now. Corvina — Robin Sloan

Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows. — Carl Sagan

Corvina must have been so different then ... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? At what point should you just give someone a new name? Sorry, no, you don't get to be Corvina anymore. Now you're Corvina 2.0 - a dubious upgrade. — Robin Sloan

You want me to invite him to dinner."
"I want you to invite him to dinner," she agreed.
"You know," he said, "most gay men don't have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives."
"That's probably true," she said. "You're one of the lucky ones. — Matthew Haldeman-Time

It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition. — D.W. Winnicott