Covarrubias Diccionario Quotes & Sayings

All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better. — Edouard Boubat

Ain't no Jesus in Snowtown, Detective. — Warren Ellis

When the sun was set I might perhaps go to sleep. I never let myself sleep during the day. Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair. The sun will not tolerate it. If he can he will pry under your eyelids and prise them apart; and if you hang black curtains at your windows he will lay siege to your room until it is so stifling that at last you stagger with staring eyes to the window and tear back the curtains to see that most terrible of sights, the broad daylight outside a room where you have been sleeping. — Iris Murdoch

What we also know is we haven't found them [weapons of mass destruction] in Iraq - now let the survey group complete its work and give us the report ... They will not report that there was no threat from Saddam, I don't believe. — Tony Blair

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it. — Joe Manganiello

Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism. — Shirley Williams

There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love — Michael Xavier

Every day in life, people we will likely never encounter a second time, pass us by. For some unknown reason, I just couldn't accept that he was one of them. — Penelope Ward