Crujeiras Quotes & Sayings

Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art. — Ellen Kushner

All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things. — George Berkeley

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona. — Marc Anthony

IT IS IN THE MOMENT OF YOUR DECISION THAT YOU LIFE IS SHAPED. — Anthony Robbins

Hell is more bearable than nothingness. — Philip James Bailey

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer. — Angela Davis

Memories are like Diamonds. They are precious and and wonderful things. Cherish each one. — Roy Carl Weiler Sr.

Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction. — Dinaw Mengestu

THE story of Mr. Knill's prophesying that I should preach the gospel in Rowland Hill's Chapel, and to the largest congregations in the world, has been regarded by many as a legend, but it was strictly true. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

stark white end chairs and a sofa. — Lee Driver

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible. — Atom Egoyan

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. — William Lloyd Garrison

The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies
easily checkable, blatant lies
and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men
15 of them are Saudis
and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq
how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O. J. Simpson jurors. — Fran Lebowitz