Espeleta Family Quotes & Sayings

Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is. — Zadie Smith

The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear. — Lyndon B. Johnson

They do not exist in their own right, but only have an existence dependent upon many factors, including a consciousness that conceptualizes them. Once they exist but do not exist on their own, they necessarily exist in dependence upon conceptualization. However, when phenomena appear to us, they do not at all appear as if they exist this way. Rather, they seem to be established in their own right, from the object's side, without depending upon a conceptualizing consciousness. When — Dalai Lama XIV

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share? — Richard Trumka

I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out. — Robert Redford

I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great. — Nicole Kidman

Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave. — Jerome K. Jerome

I mean, I think I am basically a cool girl, but I am also a pain in the ass. — Rachel Cohn

The only problem they had ... was in drawing the fine differences between war-mass murder of people wearing a uniform not your own; justifiable loss-mass murder of your own troops, but with substantial gains; and criminal negligence-mass murder of your own troops, without appreciable benefit. — Richard K. Morgan

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare. — Joseph Campbell

Hades cracked his knuckles on each hand, and the noise was like gunpowder caps exploding in the silence. "First dish duty," he mumbled to himself, "now possessed cowboys. This just isn't my night. — Josh Strnad

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina. — Gina Rodriguez

The way Benny saw it, when your first memory was of zombies killing your parents, then you had a license to hate them as much as you wanted. — Jonathan Maberry

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. — Gilbert K. Chesterton