Fausto Carmona Quotes & Sayings

From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and myths that I learned to dream, to imagine a different life, to realize potentials and probabilities other than those of the painful, poverty-mired existence I found myself in as a child. With a book I could hide in a corner, safe from the heavy hand and belt of my stepfather, and for a while not worry about where our next meal would come from, or where we would be sleeping that night, or when my mother would break and have to be sent yet again to the mental institution. Books, for me, we tiny life rafts that I clung to desperately. — J. Don Cook

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. — Tallulah Bankhead

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil. — George W. Bush

Oh gosh. I mean, I love Saxon. Yes I do. *slaps forehead* *runs fingers despairingly through hair* — M..

He missed everything about her, from her hot temper to her sassy retorts to the way her breath always seemed to catch every time her came near her. He missed the music of her laugh, the gentle touch of her hand, the clean scent of apples that seemed to cling to her skin. He even missed the way she completely spoiled Cinder and had stolen the wolf's loyalty away from him. — Crista McHugh

Ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one. — Judy Melinek

The five stages of model development. - Donald Knuth, Stanford computer scientist Knuth discovered that computer program development goes through five stages. These steps also apply to building models, and I rigorously adhere to them in my consulting work. 1. Decide what you want the model to do. 2. Decide how to build the model. 3. Build the model. 4. Debug the model. 5. Trash stages 1 through 4 and start again, now that you know what you really wanted in the first place. Once you realize that step 5 is inevitable, you become more willing to discard bad models early rather than continually to patch them up. In fact, I recommend getting to step 5 many times by building an evolving set of prototypes. This is consistent with an emerging style of system development known as Extreme Programming.2 To get a large model to work you must start with a small model that works, not a large model that doesn't work. - Alan Manne, Stanford energy economist — Sam L. Savage

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives — Cliff Burton

If I ever cheated on my wife, I think she'd have my balls cut off. If you don't want to castrate this guy after what he's done, then he's not the one for you. — Penny Reid

In life, you achieve nirvana when you learn to love unconditionally. — Debasish Mridha

How do you know?" She shrugged. "Once you've been around for a bit, you get to know stuff." I kicked a stone. "By 'a bit' do you mean 'a really long time'?" She nodded. "How old are you, really?" I asked. "Eleven." I thought for a bit. Then I asked, "How long have you been eleven for?" She smiled at me. — Neil Gaiman

After all, you can only hold one person tight if you're holding on with both hands. — Heidi Heilig