Femmina 1998 Quotes & Sayings

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. — E. J. Hughes

Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could no longer see himself. — Ken Liu

Just be yourself and wear deodorant. — Jhene Aiko

I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything. — Katie Chang

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it. — Edward Dunlop

I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters. — Ross Macdonald

Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of rampant ritualized group sex, mate-swapping, unrestrained casual affairs, and socially sanctioned sequential sex were all reported in cultures that anthropologists insist are monogamous simply because they've determined that something they call "marriage" takes place there. No wonder so many insist that marriage, monogamy, and the nuclear family are human universals. With such all-encompassing interpretations of the concepts, even the prairie vole, who "sleeps with anyone," would qualify. — Christopher Ryan

But perhaps revelation often comes when you're not looking for it, resolution when you don't realize you need it. — Robert Goddard

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live. — Edward R. Murrow

It's just logic- what went in.....didn't come out!
The amount of jewellery stolen in over 600 of Ben Hall's robberies has not been found.
Apart from a few small discoveries, no-one has put up their hand as to finding a large cache of stolen goods.
My assumption then is: it's still out there! — John Donohoe

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it ... constantly go to the well ... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins — Peter O'Toole

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me that the moon behind a certain cloud formation looked very like a painkiller dissolving in a glass of water. I didn't work toward that simile, it was simply there: I was mugged, as it were, by the similarity between these two very different things. Literary composition can be a similar process. The writer's real world and the writer's fictional world are compared, and these comparisons turned into text. But other times literary composition can be a plain old slog, and nothing to do with zones or inspiration. It's world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache. — David Mitchell

The site looks unpromising from a distance, blending in with the surrounding sepia-toned hills, but I'm learning that looks can be deceiving. — Lynn Austin

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father. — Ravi Zacharias