Ermelindo Escobedo Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure. — George Gissing

Things seem to be at a boiling point all the time. In fact, it has been that way my whole life. I find it interesting, and I like the fact that the emotions are in your face all the time. You always know where you stand. None of that "we don't have any racial problems here" attitude that you get, say, up north. All of this is rich fodder for a crime novelist. — George Pelecanos

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life. — Mitch Hedberg

She then turns to Clint. "That being said, if something happens to you, like you faint, we will kick you to the side and keep going. — Hope Jahren

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art. — Oscar Wilde

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard. — Francis Chan

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown. — Tim Robbins

It Is Impossible For Anyone To Live Independently Of The Kingdom Of God And Be Truly Happy — Sunday Adelaja

I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind. — Anton Chekhov