Esencia Rancho Quotes & Sayings

A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant. — Anthony De Mello

Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to. — Matthew Vaughn

Their language was an old wild language. They had known incredible loves and dark adventures and the twisted streets of alien cities. They had known the green breaking waves of the sea, and the green aisles of the silent forests. They had known war and death and fierce, cruel elation. — Winifred Holtby

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop. — Alexandra Sokoloff

I would have walked over burning coals for you, just to have you in my arms. I would have put the whole world in jeopardy just to be inside you again. — Karina Halle

Dear, he was the bad dress of men - a bit too short and clinging to you in all the wrong places. — Rebecca Flowers

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century. — Martin Amis

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do. — Mignon McLaughlin

...she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room — Edith Wharton

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it." The — Ilona Andrews

We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO. — Aleksander Kwasniewski

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for! — Joyce Grenfell

If it is something that can be embarrassing or potentially lead to the loss
of employment, do not put it on the Internet - even if you think no one
who matters will see it. — Aliah D. Wright