Ermias Asfaw Quotes & Sayings

His fish smells fishier than the others- he is sure of it. Perhaps he has been poisoned. — Lorrie Moore

Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the little magazines were kept; sometimes he'd buy one. Dead poets were his business, living ones his vice. Much of the stuff he read was crap and he knew it; still, it gave him an odd lift. Then there would be the occasional real poem, and he would catch his breath. Nothing else could drop him through space like that, then catch him; nothing else could peel him open. — Margaret Atwood

One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable. — Georges Braque

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. — Socrates

A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer. — Anthony Liccione

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh. — Larry David

Fear drives you and makes you better. — Donna Shalala

The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson fight. — Meg Ryan

In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own, — Scott Simon

Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun. — Channing Tatum

One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost. — Mark Haddon

Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil. — Joan D. Chittister