Elisandra Garcia Quotes & Sayings

She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs. — Graham Greene

Creativity is about connecting things. The key to genius is knowing how to make those connections. — Nor Sanavongsay

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace. — Philip Yancey

Garlic is the catsup of intellectuals. — John Milner

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all. — Suzanne Collins

I made that horn sound like it never had before; I made it cry for all the miles and years that separated them. — Robert James Waller

A loving heart finds joy in every moment. Nothing can resist its power for growth. — Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Don't let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn't. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going. — Atul Gawande

You made me human. I stand by that. You made me into somebody I would have wanted to become, if I'd ever thought about what I wanted to be that wasn't about a record or power or a rank or some ... delusion I was chasing. If all that was gone and stripped away, the man I am, I am because of what you did, what you made me feel all those years. — Aleksandr Voinov

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel De Montaigne

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon. — Douglas MacArthur

Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other. — Ann Brashares

He had been a tough teenager in New York's Hell's Kitchen. — Mario Puzo