Eulises Ibarra Quotes & Sayings

I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall. — Kathryn Harrison

When I rode the train west,
I went looking for something,
but I didn't see anything wonderful.
I didn't see anything better than what I already had.
Home. — Karen Hesse

People don't own teams to lose money. If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there's only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else. — Bronson Arroyo

I don't dream of a ceiling fan which is always here spinning above my head. I dream of a cool weather — Munia Khan

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery — Mother Jones

It was like an invisible fire that we could feel, that had been trying to pierce through our mutual darkness. It struck me that each of us is a darkness for the other. Three days or three years don't make a difference unless we can catch hold of a burning moment in the darkness, knowing full well that it won't last and after it is extinguished we will slide back into our own chilling solitude. — Nirmal Verma

Why do anything if the apex of human development is Fran Drescher? — Noah Cicero

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood. — Thomas D. Zweifel

Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss. — Richard Beck

We might someday attain a relationship of mutual respect," he said softly. First, I thought, I will see gods walking the earth. He went on. "For now I will have your obedience." His ability to convey a world of threat in so few words was remarkable. — Megan Whalen Turner

It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent. — Richard P. Feynman

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. — Marcel Proust

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up. — Bill Lee

Of course, I feared that the joy I felt, like certain trees, had taken root at the edge of a craggy cliff. They may crane their necks and turn their leaves all they want toward the sun, but gravity has the last word. — Andre Aciman