Falcones Quotes & Sayings

My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible. — Michael Smith

The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look ... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us. What do they care what might have happened in the past? They are accompanying us, and are happy with that; can you see them shine? The stars are twinkling in the sky; would they do that if the past mattered? Wouldn't there be a huge storm if God wanted to punish us? We are alone, you and I, with no past, no memories, no guilt, nothing that can stand in the way of ... our love. — Ildefonso Falcones

My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog. — Gary Delaney

Matthias knew if he started trailing after Nina on missions like some kind of watchdog, she'd put her hands on those glorious hips and demonstrate her knowledge of profanity in several different languages. — Leigh Bardugo

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science — Paul Kurtz

The deed of love is stronger than words — Pearl Bailey

Delicious baked goods were the great work hostility equalizer, no matter how unorthodox the workplace. — Molly Harper

I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully.
-Nick to Jamie — Sarah Rees Brennan

In death, hope is everlasting. — Ildefonso Falcones

I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a songwriter and wrote for myself, which I still do, and I also wanted to communicate with my audience. — Paul Weller

You cannot trust a man with your money who cannot take care of his own. — Russell H. Conwell

If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it. — Reese Witherspoon

For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping. — Virginia Woolf

I don't like message movies either. — Don Cheadle

No hay libertad con hambre — Ildefonso Falcones

Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its present, and the certainty of change, have laid the groundwork for a dialogue and a vision that reaches farther than human eyes can see. — Vicki Goldberg

Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans. — Marvin Ammori

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist. — Luigi Pirandello