Espejo De Agua Quotes & Sayings

[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen ... To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape ... It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be. — Jessie Sampter

I don't like politics much," she said. "Why's that?" "I don't know. People always end up disappointed." There — Barack Obama

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. — Gore Vidal

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.' — Linus Torvalds

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it. — Oliver Heaviside

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population. — Jeremy Rifkin

It is also the irrational instinct of religionism, the vague yearning for something to worship - a reflection or shadow of the true devotional principle - which prompts men to project a subjective image of the lower, personal mind, and to endow it with human attributes, and then to claim to receive "revelations" from it; and this - the image of the Beast, or unspiritual mind, - is their anthropomorphic God, a fabulous monster the worship of which has ever prompted men to fanaticism and persecution, and has inflicted untold misery and dread upon the masses of mankind, as well as physical torture and death in hideous forms upon the many martyrs who have refused to bend the knee to this Gorgonean phantom of the beast-mind of man. Truly, where the worshipers of this image of the Beast predominate, the man whose brow and hand are unbranded by this superstition, who neither thinks nor acts in accordance with it, suffers ostracism if not virulent persecution. — James Morgan Pryse

The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work. — Harold Rosenberg

Selena had been singing along, absently, gazing into nowhere. She looked at us like she was trying to work out who we were, before she got up — Tana French

Day One of being on the shit list." She dug her fingers into her hair, scratching vigorously. "And I haven't a thing to wear." Get — Suanne Laqueur

Welcome my new paranoia, if you are not my reality, so where the hell is the fucking reality!?!?! To be or not to be?! this is the paranoia of my sweet dreams. So you are more than welcome to my paradox, to my mind, to my existence. Consume from my brains flesh. There is no ending of this portion for you. My mind is the Prometheus of the time. Endless resource for paranoia. — Fereidoon Yazdi

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years. — Charles Stross

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain. — Ann Aguirre

I set the self-portrait timer on the camera to ten seconds, handed it to the zombie, and sent him into the grid and through the door to blow himself up. Then things got weird. — Charles Stross

Ariel, look at me.
Look at me.
Look at me. — David Levithan