Echando Palo Quotes & Sayings

I love a good 2,000 year old storytelling fresco! — Joy Baer

About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler. — Tom Heinsohn

You are pure-hearted, Branza, and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart. However sweet that other place was, it was not real. It was an artifact of your mam's imagination; it was a dream of hers and a desire; you could not have stayed there forever and called yourself alive. Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to. (357) — Margo Lanagan

You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.' — Daniel Woodrell

To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice. — Bill Engvall

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call. — Bob Hicok

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva

An economist is a man who, when he finds something works in practice, wonders if it works in theory. — Walter Heller

Going overboard on a quest for perfection leads to life suckage and backsliding. — James S. Fell

He was protecting. He was saving. Yet he was killing. How could something so terrible be so beautiful at the same time? — Brandon Sanderson

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it. — Stephen King

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something. — Madeleine Albright

human beings are overshadowed by anxiety because of our divided selves. I — Alan W. Watts

Roda?" asked, combining his name with Yoda's. — Darynda Jones