Escondidas Con Quotes & Sayings

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him. — Mother Teresa

I do a lot of schmoozing. — Willard Scott

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up. — James Geary

When it comes to salt, what was really staggering to me is that the industry itself is totally hooked on salt. It is this miracle ingredient that solves all of their problems. There is the flavor burst to the salt itself, but it also serves as a preservative, so foods can stay on the shelves for months. — Michael Moss

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal. — Peter S. Beagle

If you're gay and live in New York and don't go to gym, eventually they come for you. — Augusten Burroughs

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities. — Esther Dyson

She was so cool, as she knew, ankles crossed
at the puckered hem of granite
gray sweatpants, and she also knew
I was watching from the open door
of the B train - watching her pose
in apparent comfort at the girder of this city thoroughfare. — Kristen Henderson

Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the opposite of what they mean. And not only "people," but the very people we trusted most - our parents, teachers, leaders. — Erich Fromm

I think it's better to be a woman with some curves. It's more natural. — Pierre Dukan

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake. — Michael Chabon

We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on. — Eleanor Smeal

the phoenix feather in Harry's wand had come from the same bird that had supplied the core of Lord Voldemort's. — J.K. Rowling

There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly. — Lee Daniels