Estival Significado Quotes & Sayings

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. — Stephen Hawking

I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph. — Idris Khan

Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near. — Philip Yancey

to ignore life at the proper time takes a special wisdom: like a Happy New Year to you all. — Charles Bukowski

A great fire at night always has a thrilling and exhilarating effect. This is what explains the attraction of fireworks. But in that case the artistic regularity with which the fire is presented and the complete lack of danger give an impression of lightness and playfulness like the effect of a glass of champaign. A real conflagration is a very different matter. Then the horror and a certain sense of personal danger, together with the exhilarating effect at night, produce on the spectator (though of course not in the householder whose goods are being burnt) a certain concussion of the brain and, as it were, a challenge to those destructive instincts which, alas, lie hidden in every heart, even that of the mildest and most domestic little clerk ... .This sinister sensation is almost always fascinating ... of course, the very man who enjoys the spectacle will rush into the fire himself to save a child or an old woman ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. — Ernest Istook

A stranger's rose is but a thorn. — I.L. Peretz

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward. — John Hancock

But the thing about Literature is, well, basically it encapsulates all the disciplines - it's history, philosophy, politics, sexual politics, sociology, psychology, linguistics, science. Literature is mankind's organised response to the world around him, or her. — David Nicholls

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! — Oscar Wilde

You think I'm going to let you burn in hell alone? Just don't shoot the janitor. — Chelsea Cain

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you. — Eleanor Smeal

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving. — Paul Simon

I'm still bothered.
You're French. If you lot stopped bothering the coffee and tobacco industries would collapse. — Glen Duncan