El Sabio Quotes & Sayings

It became the country's official language in the 13th century under the reign of Alfonso X el Sabio (the wise one) as he tried to unify a country that was housing a number of languages, including arabic, hebrew and latin. — Pilar Orti

I'm going to be climbing for my whole life. — Chris Sharma

You ok?" he said.
No, I'm not. I'm lonely and exhausted and no kind of mother and on top of all that migrained with fucking idiotic desire.
"I'm fine," I said, and opened the passenger door. — Glen Duncan

You look like hell. (Sebastian)
Yeah, well, it's hard to look good when you're being tortured. (Damos) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If I'd had a bazooka, I could have blown a hole in the wall between us. If I hadn't killed one or both of us, I could have asked you, 'What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like that?' — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it. — Damir Dokic

She resented the fact that her veil, which to her was a symbol of her sacred relationship to God, had now become an instrument of power, turning the women who wore them into political signs and symbols. Where do your loyalties lie, Mr. Bahri, with Islam or the state? — Azar Nafisi

I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days. — W. Richard Stevens

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. — Robert Morgan

Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall understand, oh maybe it will be on Hell's road that I shall be able to find what we need - but don't pull your hand away, even though I now know that the finding has to come on the road of what we are, if I can succeed in not sinking completely into what we are. — Clarice Lispector

We check our cellphones 100 Times per day.
(Credit to Thoughty2) — Deyth Banger

For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom. — Tom Feeney

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror. — Lil' Wayne

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. — Elizabeth Bowen

In breaking down the developmental journey through successive states of psychic organization, Mahler enabled clinicians to understand more deeply and treat more effectively children and adults who came to be officially diagnosed as borderline patients, whose severe pathology fell between the classifications of neurosis and psychosis. — Stephen A. Mitchell

There you go. Use your granddaughter to pick up women. That'll get you points in heaven. — Jennifer Rardin