Emerenciana Sianghio Quotes & Sayings

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person. — Dan Chaon

The way that you become world-class is ... by asking good questions. — Tim Ferriss

Of course a man has to take advantage of his opportunities, but the opportunities have to come," he told an audience in Cambridge, England, in the spring of 1910. "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not the great occasion, you don't get the great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in times of peace, no one would know his name now. — Candice Millard

In the seventeenth century the pound sterling was divided into twenty shillings (shortened to s.), and a shilling was divided into twelve pennies, or pence (shortened to d.). So an amount might be expressed as £2 10s 6d, or £2/10/6d. — Stephen Inwood

The figures of the past go cloaked.
They walk in mist and rain and snow
And go, go slowly, but they go. — Wallace Stevens

The man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client. — Joseph Hansen

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS? — Dan Quayle

The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space — Paul Theroux

She didn't warn you about me?"
"Should she have?"
Erica finished her drink, relishing the burn in her belly and the flush of heat in her cheeks as she nodded "Definitely."
His gaze smoldered. "It's a good thing danger is my calling, then. — Lisa Kessler

Anger is momentary madness. — Horace

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. — Grace Paley